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 Denmark and from Seoul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Shuggie Otis to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Das Ding,
Second Layer,
The Star Department,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Youth Brigade,
Soft Cell,
Hashim,
Soul II Soul,
Joe Finger,
Derrick May,
L. Decosne,
The Dave Clark Five,
Carl Craig,
The Seeds,
The Invisible,
The Trojans,
Loose Ends,
Gang of Four,
Lightning Bolt,
Byron Stingily,
Cal Tjader,
In Retrospect,
Morten Harket,
Scientists,
Donny Hathaway,
Wings,
Moss Icon,
Deadbeat,
The Divine Comedy,
Accadde A,
Alton Ellis,
Idris Muhammad,
Radiohead,
Average White Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Smiths,
Quadrant,
Absolute Body Control,
Kerrie Biddell,
New Age Steppers,
Ohio Players,
The Blackbyrds,
The Zeros,
Eric Copeland,
OOIOO,
Lower 48,
Lou Christie,
The Durutti Column,
Bob Dylan,
The Barracudas,
Masters at Work,
The Knickerbockers,
The Residents,
Pantytec,
Roxy Music,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Shadows of Knight,
ABC,
Massinfluence,
Nik Kershaw,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.