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 Argentina and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Con Funk Shun to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Prince Buster,
U.S. Maple,
Buzzcocks,
Von Mondo,
Big Daddy Kane,
Leonard Cohen,
Dave Gahan,
The Tremeloes,
The Fugs,
Underground Resistance,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scratch Acid,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
OOIOO,
Average White Band,
Sun City Girls,
Jeff Mills,
the Sonics,
Ronnie Foster,
Hashim,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Trumans Water,
Bush Tetras,
Interpol,
Gong,
Junior Murvin,
Ice-T,
Gang Green,
The Music Machine,
Main Source,
Q and Not U,
Joy Division,
Byron Stingily,
Donny Hathaway,
The Modern Lovers,
Deepchord,
Tears for Fears,
Ornette Coleman,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Smoke,
The Gap Band,
The Motions,
Sun Ra,
Roger Hodgson,
Eddi Front,
Fatback Band,
Rekid,
Marc Almond,
Bobby Byrd,
The Saints,
Smog,
This Heat,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Avey Tare,
The Five Americans,
Moss Icon,
Shuggie Otis,
Yellowson,
Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco.
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.