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 Uganda and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Derrick May,
Cal Tjader,
Oblivians,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Lalo Schifrin,
John Lydon,
Khruangbin,
Duran Duran,
Black Sheep,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Grass Roots,
The Cramps,
Tears for Fears,
The Offenders,
It's A Beautiful Day,
D'Angelo,
Graham Central Station,
Quantec,
Robert Görl,
Model 500,
Gabor Szabo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sister Nancy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eddi Front,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
H. Thieme,
Goldenarms,
Quando Quango,
Minny Pops,
Mo-Dettes,
PIL,
Patti Smith,
Harpers Bizarre,
T.S.O.L.,
Youth Brigade,
Mantronix,
Tommy Roe,
The Searchers,
Whodini,
Big Daddy Kane,
Susan Cadogan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Amon Düül,
Saccharine Trust,
a-ha,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Animal Collective,
Morten Harket,
Archie Shepp,
Lyres,
Josef K,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dave Gahan,
Porter Ricks,
Heaven 17,
Kaleidoscope,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.