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 Bahrain and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Model 500 to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men 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?
Yusef Lateef,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funkadelic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jesper Dahlback,
a-ha,
Toni Rubio,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dual Sessions,
Stetsasonic,
Newcleus,
Suburban Knight,
The Zeros,
Underground Resistance,
Eve St. Jones,
The Blackbyrds,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Flipper,
Althea and Donna,
Faust,
Ludus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Moody Blues,
Q and Not U,
Maurizio,
Fear,
Accadde A,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Aaron Thompson,
Deepchord,
The Walker Brothers,
Junior Murvin,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Moleskins,
Easy Going,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ken Boothe,
UT,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Young Marble Giants,
Cymande,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sonny Sharrock,
Japan,
Talk Talk,
The Tremeloes,
Kerri Chandler,
Von Mondo,
Bill Wells,
Nik Kershaw,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Gap Band,
Ice-T,
New Age Steppers,
Carl Craig,
Peter and Kerry,
The Last Poets,
Y Pants,
Clear Light,
Crispian St. Peters,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hashim,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.