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 Singapore and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 Fat Boys to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mr. Review. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
CMW,
Eli Mardock,
Youth Brigade,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sun Ra,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Theoretical Girls,
JFA,
The Count Five,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sugar Minott,
Electric Prunes,
The Leaves,
Donald Byrd,
New Order,
Ituana,
Shuggie Otis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Saccharine Trust,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Charles Mingus,
Derrick May,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
FM Einheit,
Mandrill,
Funky Four + One,
Minnie Riperton,
Second Layer,
Matthew Halsall,
The Young Rascals,
Robert Wyatt,
Rakim,
Lucky Dragons,
Byron Stingily,
Television Personalities,
Magazine,
Laurel Aitken,
Sun City Girls,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Isaac Hayes,
The Slackers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Easy Going,
Marshall Jefferson,
10cc,
Ultravox,
Drive Like Jehu,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eden Ahbez,
Surgeon,
Swell Maps,
PIL,
Ralphi Rosario,
a-ha,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.