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 Italy and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Scrapy to the dance 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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 grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Fela Kuti,
Absolute Body Control,
The Happenings,
Todd Terry,
UT,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Metal Thangz,
Aswad,
Visage,
The Durutti Column,
Loose Ends,
ABC,
In Retrospect,
Babytalk,
Malaria!,
Erasure,
Wire,
Lower 48,
The Beau Brummels,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
China Crisis,
Dorothy Ashby,
the Sonics,
Whodini,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Neu!,
Chrome,
The Birthday Party,
Roger Hodgson,
D'Angelo,
the Bar-Kays,
Supertramp,
Dark Day,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mission of Burma,
Funkadelic,
Theoretical Girls,
Flamin' Groovies,
Amon Düül II,
One Last Wish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Negative Approach,
June of 44,
The Vogues,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The J.B.'s,
Leonard Cohen,
Cheater Slicks,
Yazoo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barrington Levy,
U.S. Maple,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cameo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Crime,
Duran Duran,
Qualms,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.