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 Czech Republic and from Shanghai.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donald Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pet Shop Boys,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Residents,
Adolescents,
Television,
Danielle Patucci,
Pussy Galore,
Dennis Brown,
Sonny Sharrock,
Brand Nubian,
The Monochrome Set,
Ronan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Subhumans,
The Divine Comedy,
The Black Dice,
Los Fastidios,
Clear Light,
Pagans,
Faust,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Donny Hathaway,
Piero Umiliani,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rhythm & Sound,
The Electric Prunes,
Donald Byrd,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lakeside,
Pulsallama,
Gabor Szabo,
Mandrill,
Brothers Johnson,
Soft Machine,
The Fuzztones,
Gang Starr,
Ornette Coleman,
Deadbeat,
Lalann,
John Coltrane,
Avey Tare,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Circle Jerks,
Deakin,
Derrick May,
Yusef Lateef,
AZ,
Siglo XX,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bush Tetras,
Morten Harket,
John Holt,
U.S. Maple,
The Zeros,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Gap Band,
Grauzone,
Liliput,
The Fugs,
Matthew Bourne,
Rapeman,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.