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 Kiribati and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Donald Fagen 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the rap 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rufus Thomas,
Sister Nancy,
Bobby Womack,
Lalo Schifrin,
Funkadelic,
The Smiths,
The Monochrome Set,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Janne Schatter,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Motions,
Bootsy Collins,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Depeche Mode,
Graham Central Station,
Scientists,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerrie Biddell,
Hasil Adkins,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Erasure,
New York Dolls,
Lou Christie,
China Crisis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Durutti Column,
Royal Trux,
Byron Stingily,
Drive Like Jehu,
Barbara Tucker,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fat Boys,
Howard Jones,
Buzzcocks,
Mo-Dettes,
The Misunderstood,
Los Fastidios,
Spandau Ballet,
Chris & Cosey,
Gerry Rafferty,
Mandrill,
T. Rex,
The Gories,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Brass Construction,
Pussy Galore,
Skaos,
Henry Cow,
R.M.O.,
Oneida,
Popol Vuh,
Shoche,
U.S. Maple,
The Velvet Underground,
Godley & Creme,
The Mummies,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.