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 Morocco and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 The Index to the dance 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eli Mardock,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marmalade,
Jerry's Kids,
Slave,
Pylon,
Ronnie Foster,
L. Decosne,
Eric Copeland,
The American Breed,
Brass Construction,
Vladislav Delay,
Soft Machine,
Minny Pops,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Porter Ricks,
World's Most,
The Monochrome Set,
Saccharine Trust,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mo-Dettes,
Fela Kuti,
Spoonie Gee,
Country Teasers,
10cc,
The Durutti Column,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Glambeats Corp.,
Electric Prunes,
Darondo,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
Von Mondo,
John Cale,
Mantronix,
Bobby Womack,
John Holt,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Negative Approach,
Sexual Harrassment,
Zapp,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Kinks,
Scientists,
Supertramp,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Anthony Braxton,
Roy Ayers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nico,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Stooges,
Jimmy McGriff,
June Days,
Simply Red,
Gichy Dan,
The Invisible,
Fluxion,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.