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 Belarus and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe 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 KRS-One to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Wally Richardson. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kings Of Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Piero Umiliani,
Minny Pops,
The Happenings,
Parry Music,
Erasure,
Aswad,
Lyres,
The Moleskins,
DJ Style,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Albert Ayler,
Absolute Body Control,
Crime,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Flash Fearless,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
World's Most,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Walker Brothers,
Jeff Mills,
Whodini,
cv313,
The Knickerbockers,
Little Man,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
David McCallum,
the Soft Cell,
Accadde A,
Arcadia,
Unwound,
Eric Dolphy,
Brand Nubian,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Neon Judgement,
Soul Sonic Force,
Donny Hathaway,
Black Flag,
Susan Cadogan,
Kas Product,
The Zeros,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pole,
Amon Düül,
JFA,
Smog,
Stereo Dub,
Joyce Sims,
Quadrant,
Stetsasonic,
the Association,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.