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 Netherlands and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 arpeggiator 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 In Retrospect to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Isaac Hayes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Average White Band,
Country Teasers,
Moby Grape,
Swell Maps,
The Fugs,
The Associates,
Siglo XX,
Mo-Dettes,
Man Parrish,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
LL Cool J,
Lower 48,
The New Christs,
The Fuzztones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
MC5,
Amazonics,
Shuggie Otis,
Fugazi,
PIL,
Barbara Tucker,
Harry Pussy,
Soft Machine,
The Star Department,
Saccharine Trust,
Zapp,
UT,
Monks,
The Barracudas,
Johnny Osbourne,
Barclay James Harvest,
Supertramp,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Trojans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
FM Einheit,
The Angels of Light,
Can,
Judy Mowatt,
Maurizio,
Glambeats Corp.,
Youth Brigade,
Simply Red,
Joy Division,
EPMD,
Skaos,
Byron Stingily,
Charles Mingus,
Oneida,
Lalann,
Scion,
Nico,
Archie Shepp,
Soulsonic Force,
Faraquet,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.