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 Belgium and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bremen.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
The Standells,
Rites of Spring,
Silicon Teens,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Invisible,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fat Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Quantec,
Trumans Water,
Sugar Minott,
The Monochrome Set,
The Monks,
Negative Approach,
Camberwell Now,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Moleskins,
Flipper,
Joe Finger,
Guru Guru,
Moby Grape,
Model 500,
Alton Ellis,
Delta 5,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Mummies,
Sunsets and Hearts,
MDC,
Stetsasonic,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jandek,
The Beau Brummels,
The Tremeloes,
Outsiders,
Gichy Dan,
Minor Threat,
Excepter,
Man Parrish,
The Last Poets,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Connie Case,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Second Layer,
Robert Wyatt,
Roxy Music,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Half Japanese,
The Stooges,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Circle Jerks,
L. Decosne,
AZ,
KRS-One,
Johnny Clarke,
Don Cherry,
Absolute Body Control,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.