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 Albania and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 snare 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 Man Eating Sloth to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kings Of Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
The Moody Blues,
Barrington Levy,
Ohio Players,
The Alarm Clocks,
Boz Scaggs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rites of Spring,
Tom Boy,
Joe Finger,
LL Cool J,
Intrusion,
Newcleus,
Marmalade,
Fluxion,
Maleditus Sound,
Wolf Eyes,
Essential Logic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sixth Finger,
Bobby Byrd,
Pantaleimon,
Hardrive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Stooges,
the Sonics,
The Smiths,
H. Thieme,
Black Bananas,
David Bowie,
Darondo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Blues Magoos,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Infiniti,
Lebanon Hanover,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lindisfarne,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
OOIOO,
Make Up,
Joensuu 1685,
Wings,
the Soft Cell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Black Moon,
Mark Hollis,
These Immortal Souls,
The Victims,
Adolescents,
Thompson Twins,
Erykah Badu,
Mandrill,
Kurtis Blow,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kenny Larkin,
Nik Kershaw,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.