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 Kenya and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Sällskapet to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Kinks,
Mo-Dettes,
New Age Steppers,
The Real Kids,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Khruangbin,
Gichy Dan,
The Pretty Things,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Von Mondo,
Joey Negro,
Sarah Menescal,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dual Sessions,
DJ Style,
Model 500,
48th St. Collective,
Eden Ahbez,
Pussy Galore,
Junior Murvin,
Al Stewart,
Essential Logic,
Isaac Hayes,
Massinfluence,
The Neon Judgement,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Tremeloes,
Radiohead,
Bob Dylan,
Interpol,
MC5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The United States of America,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aaron Thompson,
Camberwell Now,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ohio Players,
Moss Icon,
Metal Thangz,
Angry Samoans,
Joyce Sims,
Gerry Rafferty,
China Crisis,
Quantec,
Infiniti,
Technova,
Ludus,
Pylon,
The Monks,
Amon Düül,
Robert Görl,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eric Dolphy,
The Toasters,
Nas,
Michelle Simonal,
U.S. Maple,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.