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 Indonesia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Half Japanese to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Jeru the Damaja,
Surgeon,
The Offenders,
Mars,
Groovy Waters,
Bad Manners,
Nation of Ulysses,
Junior Murvin,
Sun Ra,
Thee Headcoats,
Camouflage,
Unrelated Segments,
Harmonia,
Isaac Hayes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Dennis Brown,
Godley & Creme,
Neil Young,
Au Pairs,
Agitation Free,
Mark Hollis,
Bluetip,
Joensuu 1685,
New York Dolls,
Crooked Eye,
Robert Hood,
Lucky Dragons,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Monolake,
MC5,
Deepchord,
Maurizio,
Pantaleimon,
Easy Going,
Infiniti,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lyres,
Half Japanese,
Anakelly,
The Electric Prunes,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Doobie Brothers,
These Immortal Souls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Schoolly D,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Vainqueur,
Accadde A,
The Index,
Pierre Henry,
Deakin,
JFA,
R.M.O.,
Roxette,
Marcia Griffiths,
Brass Construction,
Brand Nubian,
Camberwell Now,
Amon Düül II,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.