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 Moldova and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 snare 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 Ultimate Spinach to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bronski Beat,
Minnie Riperton,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ponytail,
Quantec,
Inner City,
Tropical Tobacco,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wire,
Laurel Aitken,
The Count Five,
The Blues Magoos,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Arcadia,
Scratch Acid,
Rapeman,
Ludus,
Bootsy Collins,
Kaleidoscope,
Cameo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Dark Day,
The Motions,
DJ Sneak,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Charles Mingus,
Radio Birdman,
Dave Gahan,
The Beau Brummels,
The Cowsills,
Fela Kuti,
JFA,
Jesper Dahlback,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Robert Wyatt,
Shuggie Otis,
Alice Coltrane,
The Black Dice,
Barry Ungar,
Moebius,
Lalo Schifrin,
Radiopuhelimet,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Main Source,
The Fall,
Skarface,
New Age Steppers,
10cc,
Rufus Thomas,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ossler,
Nik Kershaw,
Junior Murvin,
The Barracudas,
Maurizio,
The Red Krayola,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
R.M.O.,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.