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 Africa and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 sitar 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 Sällskapet to the dance 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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sixth Finger,
Main Source,
The Doobie Brothers,
L. Decosne,
Avey Tare,
Skriet,
The Moleskins,
Hardrive,
EPMD,
Rosa Yemen,
Eli Mardock,
Peter & Gordon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Susan Cadogan,
Pagans,
The Sonics,
Alton Ellis,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Blues Magoos,
Stiv Bators,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Moss Icon,
Cybotron,
Public Image Ltd.,
Crash Course in Science,
Livin' Joy,
Rakim,
The Dirtbombs,
Nick Fraelich,
Yazoo,
Al Stewart,
Glenn Branca,
ABBA,
Amazonics,
Fluxion,
Au Pairs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Busters,
Anthony Braxton,
Joy Division,
Underground Resistance,
Rapeman,
Stetsasonic,
Pierre Henry,
Suburban Knight,
Mary Jane Girls,
China Crisis,
Dark Day,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Technova,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bootsy Collins,
DJ Style,
Junior Murvin,
Harmonia,
Rhythm & Sound,
James White and The Blacks,
F. McDonald,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.