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 Bahamas and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the grime 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
PIL,
The Toasters,
Trumans Water,
Davy DMX,
The Walker Brothers,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Dead C,
Supertramp,
Ronan,
Sun City Girls,
The Gap Band,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jawbox,
Electric Prunes,
Parry Music,
Terry Callier,
The Raincoats,
Hot Snakes,
Lower 48,
Quadrant,
Matthew Bourne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Smoke,
Alton Ellis,
Shuggie Otis,
Soul II Soul,
Alice Coltrane,
10cc,
Wolf Eyes,
Bill Wells,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Todd Rundgren,
The Names,
Scott Walker,
Kool Moe Dee,
Duran Duran,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Archie Shepp,
Los Fastidios,
The Young Rascals,
Soft Machine,
The Fire Engines,
Roy Ayers,
The Standells,
Nas,
The Cramps,
Spoonie Gee,
Deadbeat,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tubeway Army,
The Golliwogs,
Main Source,
Crime,
New Order,
B.T. Express,
Absolute Body Control,
Be Bop Deluxe,
X-101,
a-ha,
Faust,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.