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 Bulgaria and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the oboe 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 Duran Duran to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan 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 clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Pop Group,
Sun Ra,
The Moody Blues,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Simply Red,
Kayak,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Agitation Free,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Detroit Cobras,
Iggy Pop,
Jerry's Kids,
Ken Boothe,
Procol Harum,
Hoover,
The Blues Magoos,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Drexciya,
The Red Krayola,
The Kinks,
The Wake,
X-Ray Spex,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Buzzcocks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Little Man,
T.S.O.L.,
Wire,
The Walker Brothers,
Isaac Hayes,
Duran Duran,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minny Pops,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bill Wells,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Wolf Eyes,
The Gories,
Susan Cadogan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lyres,
World's Most,
Bizarre Inc.,
Thompson Twins,
Ituana,
Althea and Donna,
K-Klass,
Rod Modell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Royal Trux,
Gabor Szabo,
Carl Craig,
Amon Düül,
Kurtis Blow,
Scan 7,
Warsaw,
Bobby Womack,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.