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 Iran and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Donald Fagen 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 Nas to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Piero Umiliani,
The Skatalites,
Pet Shop Boys,
Amon Düül,
a-ha,
Fatback Band,
Suburban Knight,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rod Modell,
Von Mondo,
Kenny Larkin,
Peter & Gordon,
Crash Course in Science,
The Cure,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Morten Harket,
AZ,
Erasure,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
48th St. Collective,
Neil Young,
Donald Byrd,
Mission of Burma,
Public Enemy,
Darondo,
Tom Boy,
the Soft Cell,
New Order,
Man Eating Sloth,
Hashim,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jacob Miller,
Black Bananas,
China Crisis,
Organ,
Flipper,
Eurythmics,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Cecil Taylor,
Lou Reed,
Black Moon,
Jeff Mills,
Godley & Creme,
Wire,
Yaz,
Kaleidoscope,
Bad Manners,
Nick Fraelich,
Maurizio,
Roxy Music,
Eric Copeland,
Oblivians,
Excepter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ten City,
Ronnie Foster,
Bush Tetras,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.