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 Mali and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Paris and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 linndrum 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 Organ to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Joey Negro,
Jeff Mills,
Moby Grape,
Wally Richardson,
Infiniti,
Bauhaus,
The Techniques,
Mars,
The Grass Roots,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Harmonia,
Man Parrish,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tomorrow,
Donald Byrd,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sparks,
Dennis Brown,
Eli Mardock,
Steve Hackett,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Pretty Things,
Hot Snakes,
B.T. Express,
The Remains,
The Gladiators,
Reagan Youth,
Robert Görl,
The Searchers,
The Trojans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hasil Adkins,
The Mummies,
Dave Gahan,
Scratch Acid,
Ornette Coleman,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Funky Four + One,
Lebanon Hanover,
The American Breed,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Boz Scaggs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nick Fraelich,
John Cale,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Shuggie Otis,
Stiv Bators,
U.S. Maple,
Circle Jerks,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Cymande,
Kenny Larkin,
Bobby Womack,
The Dave Clark Five,
Index,
Patti Smith,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Seeds,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.