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 Venezuela and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Dawn Penn to the jazz 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Funky Four + One,
Chrome,
cv313,
Sixth Finger,
Glambeats Corp.,
Chris Corsano,
The Fuzztones,
Sam Rivers,
Joensuu 1685,
Niagra,
8 Eyed Spy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
B.T. Express,
T.S.O.L.,
Wire,
Marine Girls,
Magazine,
The Durutti Column,
Lucky Dragons,
The Cure,
Dawn Penn,
Soul II Soul,
James White and The Blacks,
The Slits,
Cal Tjader,
the Sonics,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Trumans Water,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gong,
Mantronix,
Rites of Spring,
The Cowsills,
Goldenarms,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fat Boys,
Moby Grape,
Scrapy,
Pagans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bluetip,
Bill Near,
Avey Tare,
Black Flag,
Barbara Tucker,
Neu!,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Al Stewart,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gang Green,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barclay James Harvest,
Crooked Eye,
Marmalade,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yellowson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.