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 Sierra Leone and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Grey Daturas,
Pulsallama,
Byron Stingily,
X-Ray Spex,
Amon Düül II,
David McCallum,
Soul Sonic Force,
Porter Ricks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Pus,
Fluxion,
Niagra,
Magazine,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Monolake,
Davy DMX,
Subhumans,
Lee Hazlewood,
Yusef Lateef,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eddi Front,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Dead C,
Brick,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Swell Maps,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Raincoats,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Marshall Jefferson,
Suicide,
Funky Four + One,
Tomorrow,
Underground Resistance,
Nation of Ulysses,
Banda Bassotti,
Television,
Minny Pops,
Marc Almond,
Joe Finger,
Arab on Radar,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gang Gang Dance,
Main Source,
Parry Music,
10cc,
The Gories,
Scan 7,
Gichy Dan,
Maleditus Sound,
Ossler,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bang On A Can,
Model 500,
Boogie Down Productions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Techniques,
Surgeon,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.