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 Sudan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sonny Sharrock to the punk 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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Sam Rivers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Toasters,
Cymande,
The Fire Engines,
Anakelly,
Bobby Sherman,
Grandmaster Flash,
Yaz,
Flipper,
Motorama,
The Smiths,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ice-T,
Severed Heads,
Unwound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sun Ra,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Moby Grape,
Gang of Four,
ABBA,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ronan,
Absolute Body Control,
Oneida,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Silicon Teens,
Nirvana,
The Blackbyrds,
Tomorrow,
Aswad,
The Barracudas,
Livin' Joy,
The Modern Lovers,
Fugazi,
Juan Atkins,
The Kinks,
Soft Machine,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nas,
Albert Ayler,
Guru Guru,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sound Behaviour,
The Monks,
Ten City,
Godley & Creme,
The Zeros,
Eric B and Rakim,
Morten Harket,
Camberwell Now,
Essential Logic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fatback Band,
Smog,
The Mighty Diamonds,
10cc,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.