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 Andorra and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Peter and Kerry to the funk 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Gong,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joensuu 1685,
Vladislav Delay,
Aaron Thompson,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Knickerbockers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Sheep,
The Saints,
Donald Byrd,
Television Personalities,
Fugazi,
Reuben Wilson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Don Cherry,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fatback Band,
Icehouse,
The Wake,
The Barracudas,
Delon & Dalcan,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Little Man,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jacques Brel,
The Shadows of Knight,
Procol Harum,
Rosa Yemen,
Kas Product,
Nation of Ulysses,
Echospace,
Faraquet,
Vainqueur,
Cal Tjader,
Nico,
Jeff Mills,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eden Ahbez,
Patti Smith,
Aloha Tigers,
Todd Rundgren,
DJ Sneak,
the Association,
Country Teasers,
The Mummies,
Roxette,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Laurel Aitken,
Cameo,
Chris Corsano,
Godley & Creme,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
a-ha,
Basic Channel,
The Golliwogs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.