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 Nicaragua and from Cairo.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Joe Smooth to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Vogues,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Echospace,
The Gories,
Alison Limerick,
The Durutti Column,
Inner City,
Soul II Soul,
Index,
FM Einheit,
Black Pus,
Robert Görl,
The Beau Brummels,
Archie Shepp,
The Fuzztones,
Carl Craig,
Little Man,
Spandau Ballet,
Electric Prunes,
The Evens,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Aural Exciters,
Sister Nancy,
Sarah Menescal,
Lindisfarne,
Erykah Badu,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tears for Fears,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ohio Players,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lalo Schifrin,
OOIOO,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Doors,
DNA,
The Misunderstood,
Wally Richardson,
Gichy Dan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Country Teasers,
Joyce Sims,
Monolake,
World's Most,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sight & Sound,
Arcadia,
The Mummies,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Surgeon,
Mr. Review,
Roger Hodgson,
Joe Smooth,
Marine Girls,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.