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 Azerbaijan and from Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 B.T. Express. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hardrive,
Blossom Toes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eve St. Jones,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kerri Chandler,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Drexciya,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Moleskins,
Sight & Sound,
The Dirtbombs,
The Fortunes,
New Age Steppers,
Swell Maps,
The Fire Engines,
Matthew Bourne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Vogues,
Average White Band,
Ice-T,
Monks,
New Order,
Morten Harket,
Mantronix,
Sam Rivers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Depeche Mode,
Sonny Sharrock,
Echospace,
Brick,
Unwound,
JFA,
Supertramp,
Barrington Levy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lightning Bolt,
OOIOO,
8 Eyed Spy,
Arcadia,
Liliput,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Standells,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Detroit Cobras,
One Last Wish,
Unrelated Segments,
Nico,
Joey Negro,
The Remains,
Lakeside,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Au Pairs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Accadde A,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Peter and Kerry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.