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 Ivory Coast and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Crispian St. Peters to the grime 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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Heavy D & The Boyz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
The Mojo Men,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Yusef Lateef,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jimmy McGriff,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fugs,
Erasure,
Maurizio,
The Busters,
L. Decosne,
Excepter,
Japan,
Electric Prunes,
Basic Channel,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Reuben Wilson,
Warren Ellis,
Cluster,
Zero Boys,
Ituana,
Con Funk Shun,
Gong,
Gang Starr,
Goldenarms,
Harmonia,
The Names,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Fire Engines,
Pussy Galore,
Supertramp,
Slick Rick,
Fugazi,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Misunderstood,
Scott Walker,
Lakeside,
Icehouse,
Crash Course in Science,
Bluetip,
Godley & Creme,
Lalo Schifrin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slave,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sister Nancy,
Colin Newman,
The New Christs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sandy B,
Terry Callier,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
David Axelrod,
Crime,
Parry Music,
Soul II Soul,
Roy Ayers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic 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.