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 Suriname 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Nas to the jazz 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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Inner City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
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,
Marine Girls,
K-Klass,
Magma,
Darondo,
Max Romeo,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Fugs,
Interpol,
Matthew Halsall,
Clear Light,
the Human League,
DJ Sneak,
Ossler,
The Slits,
Public Enemy,
Archie Shepp,
Lou Christie,
Aloha Tigers,
Tubeway Army,
Rekid,
the Slits,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camouflage,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Thompson Twins,
Hot Snakes,
Rotary Connection,
Lakeside,
Ultimate Spinach,
Slave,
Pole,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter and Kerry,
T.S.O.L.,
Andrew Hill,
Yusef Lateef,
Spoonie Gee,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Arab on Radar,
Porter Ricks,
Unrelated Segments,
The Evens,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fad Gadget,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dave Gahan,
Tres Demented,
Pere Ubu,
Tommy Roe,
Sandy B,
Gang of Four,
Simply Red,
Groovy Waters,
Royal Trux,
Susan Cadogan,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.