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 St Lucia and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 marimba 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 The Fire Engines to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Desert Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Babytalk,
Aloha Tigers,
Negative Approach,
The Durutti Column,
K-Klass,
Davy DMX,
Index,
Television Personalities,
Dead Boys,
Rotary Connection,
Grandmaster Flash,
Oneida,
Sam Rivers,
Warren Ellis,
Spoonie Gee,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Organ,
Infiniti,
Make Up,
Rites of Spring,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minor Threat,
Reuben Wilson,
DJ Style,
Sugar Minott,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Saints,
Robert Wyatt,
ABBA,
The Seeds,
kango's stein massive,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Echospace,
Ralphi Rosario,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ronnie Foster,
The Cowsills,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
FM Einheit,
Electric Prunes,
MC5,
Gang Green,
Brand Nubian,
Nils Olav,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Skriet,
Can,
The Monochrome Set,
Surgeon,
Harry Pussy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Janne Schatter,
The Grass Roots,
Eurythmics,
Graham Central Station,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun City Girls,
Accadde A,
Essential Logic,
Qualms,
Black Sheep,
Don Cherry,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.