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 Greece and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 organ 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 Negative Approach to the crunk 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Flesh Eaters,
Derrick May,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
KRS-One,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Brass Construction,
Isaac Hayes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yusef Lateef,
Make Up,
The Names,
The Fortunes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gang Green,
The Walker Brothers,
Severed Heads,
James White and The Blacks,
Black Flag,
Infiniti,
the Germs,
Basic Channel,
Kevin Saunderson,
Visage,
Lakeside,
Pet Shop Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Judy Mowatt,
Sällskapet,
Black Pus,
Whodini,
Mark Hollis,
Sam Rivers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mission of Burma,
The Beau Brummels,
Delta 5,
The Cowsills,
Cymande,
New Order,
Todd Terry,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Qualms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radio Birdman,
Nils Olav,
Q and Not U,
the Sonics,
Newcleus,
Harry Pussy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Reagan Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
MDC,
Country Teasers,
Young Marble Giants,
Reuben Wilson,
Jandek,
Unrelated Segments,
The Five Americans,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.