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 Sri Lanka and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Franke to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Residents,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kaleidoscope,
Slave,
Glambeats Corp.,
the Sonics,
June Days,
John Cale,
The Sonics,
Interpol,
Jeff Mills,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Donald Byrd,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jawbox,
Skaos,
Gabor Szabo,
Lou Christie,
Jerry's Kids,
Porter Ricks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Symarip,
The Detroit Cobras,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Fuzztones,
Shuggie Otis,
The Electric Prunes,
Mad Mike,
the Human League,
Goldenarms,
The Monochrome Set,
Surgeon,
Scion,
Sam Rivers,
Prince Buster,
Oblivians,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DJ Style,
Chris Corsano,
EPMD,
The Count Five,
Siglo XX,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jimmy McGriff,
Man Parrish,
Amon Düül,
The Angels of Light,
Erykah Badu,
Adolescents,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Zeros,
Roger Hodgson,
The Dead C,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nico,
Quadrant,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.