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 Kyrgyzstan and from Accra.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro 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 Excepter to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Skaos,
The Cowsills,
Jeru the Damaja,
Michelle Simonal,
New Order,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Josef K,
Cluster,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Newcleus,
Audionom,
Parry Music,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cameo,
Pole,
Arab on Radar,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ten City,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Avey Tare,
Supertramp,
The Barracudas,
the Bar-Kays,
The Count Five,
Brothers Johnson,
Babytalk,
Warren Ellis,
Joyce Sims,
Whodini,
Malaria!,
Faraquet,
The Velvet Underground,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Absolute Body Control,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Public Enemy,
Massinfluence,
Slave,
Black Bananas,
10cc,
The Human League,
Nation of Ulysses,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Associates,
The Index,
The Evens,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dave Clark Five,
Junior Murvin,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dennis Brown,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Colin Newman,
Bush Tetras,
Bobby Womack,
Rekid,
Peter and Kerry,
Steve Hackett,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.