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 Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Chrome to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dawn Penn,
Mark Hollis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Misunderstood,
The Vogues,
June Days,
Al Stewart,
Yaz,
Dave Gahan,
The Raincoats,
Glambeats Corp.,
OOIOO,
Bill Wells,
Suburban Knight,
Quando Quango,
Soft Machine,
The Golliwogs,
Oblivians,
The Index,
Fad Gadget,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ice-T,
Basic Channel,
Black Moon,
Half Japanese,
Rites of Spring,
Radiopuhelimet,
Scientists,
Make Up,
Terry Callier,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Goldenarms,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tom Boy,
Lakeside,
The Divine Comedy,
The Toasters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Loose Ends,
Leonard Cohen,
Aloha Tigers,
The Gories,
Arab on Radar,
Saccharine Trust,
Chris & Cosey,
Rhythm & Sound,
Althea and Donna,
John Holt,
The Birthday Party,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Young Rascals,
The Techniques,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cluster,
Eric Copeland,
Liliput,
The Angels of Light,
Khruangbin,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fluxion,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.