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 Kazakhstan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Portland and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Skaos to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
Crispy Ambulance,
Circle Jerks,
One Last Wish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
ABC,
The Busters,
Visage,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Symarip,
The Happenings,
Deakin,
Little Man,
a-ha,
Rites of Spring,
Kenny Larkin,
Dual Sessions,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Barbara Tucker,
Unrelated Segments,
DNA,
Ponytail,
Eric Copeland,
Be Bop Deluxe,
A Certain Ratio,
Derrick May,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Davy DMX,
the Sonics,
Eric B and Rakim,
Al Stewart,
Colin Newman,
Model 500,
Moby Grape,
DJ Style,
Lakeside,
Gastr Del Sol,
Monks,
Nils Olav,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bronski Beat,
Deepchord,
World's Most,
Arthur Verocai,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Funky Four + One,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Suburban Knight,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Brand Nubian,
Soul Sonic Force,
Andrew Hill,
Pylon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soft Machine,
Eurythmics,
Pagans,
The Seeds,
B.T. Express,
Idris Muhammad,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.