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 Afghanistan and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar 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 Dennis Brown to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Reagan Youth,
Leonard Cohen,
Ultra Naté,
Harmonia,
New Age Steppers,
Warsaw,
Smog,
Max Romeo,
X-Ray Spex,
The Kinks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nirvana,
John Lydon,
Don Cherry,
Tomorrow,
Siglo XX,
Cal Tjader,
Joyce Sims,
Talk Talk,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Swell Maps,
Traffic Nightmare,
Piero Umiliani,
The Leaves,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rites of Spring,
Skarface,
Gong,
Gang Green,
Brick,
The Selecter,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Crooked Eye,
Chris & Cosey,
Joe Finger,
Marc Almond,
Fear,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Schoolly D,
Alton Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joensuu 1685,
Circle Jerks,
Johnny Osbourne,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Barry Ungar,
Khruangbin,
Bob Dylan,
Accadde A,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tubeway Army,
Silicon Teens,
Hoover,
Lalo Schifrin,
X-102,
Groovy Waters,
Minor Threat,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.