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 Chile and from London.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 rhodes 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 Donny Hathaway to the rap 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Pulsallama,
Neil Young,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sonic Youth,
The Searchers,
Pagans,
Ossler,
Crooked Eye,
kango's stein massive,
Connie Case,
The Sonics,
Isaac Hayes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sonny Sharrock,
Aural Exciters,
Chrome,
Josef K,
FM Einheit,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Todd Rundgren,
Infiniti,
Reagan Youth,
Masters at Work,
Anakelly,
The Invisible,
The Motions,
Tom Boy,
the Association,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Royal Trux,
The Dead C,
The Buckinghams,
Deakin,
the Sonics,
Bauhaus,
Delta 5,
The Blackbyrds,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eric B and Rakim,
Max Romeo,
Stetsasonic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bobby Sherman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Real Kids,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Icehouse,
The New Christs,
Derrick May,
Tubeway Army,
Matthew Bourne,
Metal Thangz,
Fluxion,
The Detroit Cobras,
Junior Murvin,
Motorama,
Audionom,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Judy Mowatt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.