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 Honduras and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Carl Craig to the punk 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 The Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Beasts of Bourbon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Roxy Music,
Subhumans,
Bobby Womack,
K-Klass,
Saccharine Trust,
Lakeside,
Ponytail,
Pussy Galore,
a-ha,
Matthew Halsall,
The Tremeloes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Albert Ayler,
Harmonia,
Scott Walker,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Grass Roots,
cv313,
The Smoke,
Marmalade,
DJ Sneak,
The Smiths,
Archie Shepp,
Roger Hodgson,
Sarah Menescal,
Brothers Johnson,
Blossom Toes,
Minutemen,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Moleskins,
Altered Images,
Metal Thangz,
Crime,
Pulsallama,
Von Mondo,
Althea and Donna,
Man Parrish,
Zero Boys,
the Germs,
Brass Construction,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scratch Acid,
Grey Daturas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Animal Collective,
Country Teasers,
Trumans Water,
Hasil Adkins,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joy Division,
Marc Almond,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Section 25,
The Techniques,
Dual Sessions,
Silicon Teens,
Quadrant,
Gang Starr,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lalo Schifrin,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.