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 Saudi Arabia and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 F. McDonald. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Japan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Divine Comedy,
Howard Jones,
Ultimate Spinach,
A Certain Ratio,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scion,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
a-ha,
OOIOO,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Colin Newman,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Moleskins,
Sarah Menescal,
Urselle,
Pet Shop Boys,
Amon Düül,
Blossom Toes,
Terry Callier,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Detroit Cobras,
DJ Style,
Chris Corsano,
Matthew Halsall,
Massinfluence,
Sister Nancy,
Ten City,
Lungfish,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Moebius,
The Trojans,
Iggy Pop,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gang Gang Dance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gregory Isaacs,
Junior Murvin,
Albert Ayler,
Arcadia,
The Zeros,
Dennis Brown,
The Leaves,
Lou Reed,
Aswad,
Duran Duran,
Wasted Youth,
Model 500,
Prince Buster,
Jesper Dahlback,
Hasil Adkins,
Y Pants,
Joy Division,
The Sonics,
Fugazi,
Soft Machine,
June of 44,
Theoretical Girls,
Rites of Spring,
Todd Rundgren,
Parry Music,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.