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 South Sudan and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bootsy Collins to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Nirvana,
Archie Shepp,
Aural Exciters,
Graham Central Station,
A Certain Ratio,
Bill Near,
Livin' Joy,
Yellowson,
Robert Görl,
Godley & Creme,
Ohio Players,
Toni Rubio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Isaac Hayes,
Sonic Youth,
Bad Manners,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Matthew Halsall,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Frankie Knuckles,
Animal Collective,
Soft Cell,
Pantytec,
Fad Gadget,
The Gladiators,
World's Most,
LL Cool J,
The Velvet Underground,
Erasure,
Todd Rundgren,
John Coltrane,
Country Teasers,
The Mummies,
Dark Day,
Donny Hathaway,
Dual Sessions,
Joey Negro,
Juan Atkins,
Laurel Aitken,
The Pretty Things,
Rotary Connection,
Black Flag,
Smog,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Suburban Knight,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Slits,
David Axelrod,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Foxx,
The Beau Brummels,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sällskapet,
Stetsasonic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun Ra,
Camouflage,
Soulsonic Force,
Magma,
The Index,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.