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 Lebanon and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Pole to the rock 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crime record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Soft Machine,
The Moleskins,
Graham Central Station,
Jimmy McGriff,
Skarface,
Buzzcocks,
China Crisis,
Infiniti,
Nas,
Heaven 17,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Fuzztones,
JFA,
Sex Pistols,
The Beau Brummels,
Stetsasonic,
Parry Music,
Moby Grape,
Amon Düül II,
The Young Rascals,
F. McDonald,
Hoover,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bad Manners,
Franke,
Essential Logic,
Robert Görl,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pere Ubu,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ludus,
Joey Negro,
These Immortal Souls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eric B and Rakim,
Johnny Osbourne,
OOIOO,
Vladislav Delay,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pulsallama,
The Last Poets,
The Mojo Men,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Make Up,
Unwound,
the Bar-Kays,
AZ,
L. Decosne,
Alton Ellis,
X-102,
Soft Cell,
Anakelly,
Babytalk,
Tommy Roe,
Avey Tare,
Yusef Lateef,
Todd Terry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David Axelrod,
Joensuu 1685,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.