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 Guatemala and from Cairo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Barclay James Harvest to the grunge 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
The Vogues,
Rotary Connection,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DNA,
Frankie Knuckles,
Con Funk Shun,
Tubeway Army,
Morten Harket,
Grauzone,
Kool Moe Dee,
Buzzcocks,
The Sonics,
The Last Poets,
Amon Düül,
The Skatalites,
Nik Kershaw,
R.M.O.,
The Misunderstood,
The Star Department,
The Busters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David Axelrod,
Mad Mike,
DJ Style,
The United States of America,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rapeman,
The Evens,
Peter & Gordon,
Lungfish,
China Crisis,
Lalann,
Arcadia,
Moss Icon,
Suicide,
Prince Buster,
X-101,
LL Cool J,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rakim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bush Tetras,
Vladislav Delay,
Au Pairs,
CMW,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joe Finger,
The Slits,
Rufus Thomas,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bluetip,
Barrington Levy,
KRS-One,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scott Walker,
L. Decosne,
Bill Wells,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.