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 Senegal and from Winnipeg.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Skatalites to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Electric Light Orchestra,
MC5,
Kas Product,
T.S.O.L.,
Brick,
The Red Krayola,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kaleidoscope,
Radio Birdman,
Erykah Badu,
Todd Terry,
Popol Vuh,
Deepchord,
Yaz,
Schoolly D,
Animal Collective,
Iggy Pop,
Carl Craig,
Charles Mingus,
Peter and Kerry,
Echospace,
Marvin Gaye,
The Black Dice,
Connie Case,
Tom Boy,
Nik Kershaw,
Flamin' Groovies,
New Order,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Chrome,
Terrestrial Tones,
Big Daddy Kane,
Icehouse,
Rapeman,
cv313,
John Cale,
Derrick Morgan,
The Buckinghams,
Tomorrow,
Minny Pops,
Lee Hazlewood,
Monks,
The Motions,
The Gladiators,
Porter Ricks,
The United States of America,
The Pop Group,
Nico,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kurtis Blow,
Cluster,
Godley & Creme,
The Stooges,
Barrington Levy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hot Snakes,
Underground Resistance,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.