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 Monaco and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Dennis Brown to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Circle Jerks,
New York Dolls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Robert Wyatt,
Mars,
Lalann,
Lower 48,
Joe Smooth,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fear,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Fuzztones,
The Moleskins,
Thompson Twins,
Con Funk Shun,
Tears for Fears,
Ronnie Foster,
Marvin Gaye,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Sound,
Lakeside,
James White and The Blacks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Negative Approach,
Organ,
Monks,
The Neon Judgement,
Blake Baxter,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Star Department,
David McCallum,
Newcleus,
Colin Newman,
Y Pants,
Anthony Braxton,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Coltrane,
the Human League,
Youth Brigade,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Buzzcocks,
The Music Machine,
World's Most,
Roxy Music,
Franke,
Monolake,
The Happenings,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Shuggie Otis,
Blancmange,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Victims,
Minor Threat,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
a-ha,
Technova,
The Young Rascals,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Buckinghams,
Nation of Ulysses,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.