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 Slovakia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
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 organ 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 The Happenings to the rap 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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Enemy 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
The Happenings,
World's Most,
The Human League,
Livin' Joy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Brothers Johnson,
Scan 7,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
OOIOO,
Rhythm & Sound,
Desert Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Busters,
Jawbox,
The Searchers,
10cc,
Amon Düül,
Scrapy,
The Pretty Things,
D'Angelo,
Fatback Band,
Con Funk Shun,
Youth Brigade,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Black Dice,
Graham Central Station,
JFA,
Quantec,
Joey Negro,
Slave,
The New Christs,
David Axelrod,
The Gories,
Von Mondo,
Faust,
Swans,
Max Romeo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Stetsasonic,
John Cale,
A Certain Ratio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Saints,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pere Ubu,
Marshall Jefferson,
Barrington Levy,
The Angels of Light,
Second Layer,
Glenn Branca,
Harpers Bizarre,
Technova,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
LL Cool J,
Schoolly D,
Jerry's Kids,
The Blackbyrds,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.