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 Uruguay and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes 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 Fluxion to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wasted Youth,
Arthur Verocai,
The Five Americans,
DJ Sneak,
Tommy Roe,
The Smiths,
Derrick Morgan,
Eric B and Rakim,
Subhumans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bobby Sherman,
The Searchers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ten City,
Robert Wyatt,
The Real Kids,
The Shadows of Knight,
Darondo,
DJ Style,
Supertramp,
Rapeman,
Moss Icon,
Dawn Penn,
Amon Düül II,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mark Hollis,
Piero Umiliani,
R.M.O.,
Accadde A,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hot Snakes,
Altered Images,
H. Thieme,
KRS-One,
Icehouse,
Hardrive,
Barbara Tucker,
Silicon Teens,
E-Dancer,
Chrome,
Brothers Johnson,
Peter & Gordon,
In Retrospect,
Swell Maps,
Alton Ellis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Yusef Lateef,
Interpol,
Make Up,
Simply Red,
Crime,
Essential Logic,
Brand Nubian,
Neu!,
Fatback Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hoover,
Sonic Youth,
Intrusion,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.