Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Kenya and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Sixth Finger to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
Television,
Section 25,
Steve Hackett,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Robert Hood,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mark Hollis,
Sällskapet,
The Stooges,
Charles Mingus,
The Gun Club,
Dual Sessions,
Aural Exciters,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Yaz,
Scan 7,
Public Enemy,
Matthew Halsall,
Easy Going,
Japan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Wally Richardson,
Radiohead,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Animal Collective,
The Red Krayola,
The Barracudas,
Darondo,
Country Teasers,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Misunderstood,
Michelle Simonal,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rotary Connection,
OOIOO,
Moebius,
The Standells,
Pere Ubu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Archie Shepp,
Eric B and Rakim,
Camouflage,
The Trojans,
Rapeman,
Oneida,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Agent Orange,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minny Pops,
Derrick May,
Crime,
Blake Baxter,
Joy Division,
Qualms,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ornette Coleman,
ABC,
Maurizio,
Neu!,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.