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 Paraguay and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Slick Rick to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
ABBA,
Massinfluence,
Suburban Knight,
H. Thieme,
Tim Buckley,
World's Most,
Davy DMX,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Adolescents,
Fugazi,
Ten City,
Q and Not U,
Charles Mingus,
Fat Boys,
Parry Music,
Symarip,
Anakelly,
Boz Scaggs,
Moss Icon,
Ludus,
Harry Pussy,
Zero Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Faraquet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Aural Exciters,
Joe Smooth,
Robert Görl,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cecil Taylor,
Rapeman,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fort Wilson Riot,
New York Dolls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Velvet Underground,
Aaron Thompson,
Hot Snakes,
Yaz,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Inner City,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gichy Dan,
The Cowsills,
Sex Pistols,
Boogie Down Productions,
X-102,
Pharoah Sanders,
Monks,
K-Klass,
The Cosmic Jokers,
a-ha,
Pussy Galore,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Cramps,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.