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 Gabon and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Michael McDonald 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 Hoover to the funk 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Moon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Eric Dolphy,
Peter & Gordon,
Eurythmics,
Archie Shepp,
Bobby Sherman,
Index,
Iggy Pop,
Rotary Connection,
Terry Callier,
Fluxion,
The Angels of Light,
Marcia Griffiths,
Donald Byrd,
ABC,
Spoonie Gee,
The Dead C,
Surgeon,
Grey Daturas,
Kevin Saunderson,
Easy Going,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
In Retrospect,
Eli Mardock,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Reagan Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Blancmange,
Second Layer,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dawn Penn,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Knickerbockers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Babytalk,
Bronski Beat,
Altered Images,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The United States of America,
The Slackers,
Stetsasonic,
Black Bananas,
Colin Newman,
The Stooges,
Yusef Lateef,
David Bowie,
Anakelly,
Vladislav Delay,
Radiohead,
Soulsonic Force,
Jawbox,
Juan Atkins,
Blake Baxter,
Yellowson,
The Names,
Crash Course in Science,
Lee Hazlewood,
Monolake,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.