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 Greece and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Lou Reed 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 Lee Hazlewood 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Royal Trux,
Organ,
Pantytec,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ice-T,
Suicide,
Minnie Riperton,
Echospace,
Joey Negro,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
L. Decosne,
Minor Threat,
The Saints,
Interpol,
Fad Gadget,
Albert Ayler,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Make Up,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Moon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
ABC,
In Retrospect,
Charles Mingus,
Underground Resistance,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
CMW,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Donald Byrd,
Simply Red,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Spoonie Gee,
Index,
Rekid,
Hashim,
Trumans Water,
The Names,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Crash Course in Science,
Nirvana,
Tres Demented,
Cameo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
H. Thieme,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Prince Buster,
Marc Almond,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Henry Cow,
Anakelly,
T. Rex,
Anthony Braxton,
Gang of Four,
The Cowsills,
Ultravox,
X-101,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.