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 Barbados and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Nation of Ulysses to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Panda Bear,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fatback Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Matthew Halsall,
Black Bananas,
Cymande,
Model 500,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Goldenarms,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
D'Angelo,
Joensuu 1685,
T.S.O.L.,
Gastr Del Sol,
Monks,
Livin' Joy,
K-Klass,
The Remains,
The Victims,
Iggy Pop,
Gichy Dan,
Tropical Tobacco,
Spoonie Gee,
Sixth Finger,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Golliwogs,
Gregory Isaacs,
Brass Construction,
Ronan,
The Techniques,
Severed Heads,
Mo-Dettes,
Arcadia,
Minor Threat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Robert Hood,
The Vogues,
The Happenings,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Stooges,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Japan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Au Pairs,
Archie Shepp,
Urselle,
the Normal,
The United States of America,
Dual Sessions,
Brothers Johnson,
Bronski Beat,
Can,
Warsaw,
Sun City Girls,
Dead Boys,
the Germs,
Marine Girls,
Massinfluence,
Michelle Simonal,
Lakeside,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.