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 Cambodia and from Manchester.
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 Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Roxy Music to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Simply Red,
Kenny Larkin,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Drive Like Jehu,
Unrelated Segments,
Smog,
DJ Style,
Roxy Music,
CMW,
The Electric Prunes,
Rufus Thomas,
Spandau Ballet,
the Human League,
Todd Terry,
Rekid,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ohio Players,
Crash Course in Science,
Soft Cell,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Black Moon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Outsiders,
Carl Craig,
Sexual Harrassment,
Accadde A,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
T.S.O.L.,
a-ha,
Joy Division,
Chrome,
James White and The Blacks,
Mandrill,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pussy Galore,
D'Angelo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wolf Eyes,
Index,
The Move,
Subhumans,
The American Breed,
The Doobie Brothers,
New York Dolls,
Brothers Johnson,
Iggy Pop,
Black Pus,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Thompson Twins,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Wake,
Sonny Sharrock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Davy DMX,
Sex Pistols,
Masters at Work,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Johnny Osbourne,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.