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 the UAE and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Donald Fagen 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 Sound Behaviour to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Aaron Thompson,
Michelle Simonal,
The Count Five,
Hardrive,
The Saints,
Radiohead,
Sarah Menescal,
E-Dancer,
Toni Rubio,
Don Cherry,
Ponytail,
R.M.O.,
Alton Ellis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Agent Orange,
MDC,
Godley & Creme,
Susan Cadogan,
Flipper,
Stereo Dub,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crime,
KRS-One,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Slits,
Altered Images,
Quantec,
Lee Hazlewood,
Frankie Knuckles,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wire,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ossler,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Average White Band,
Kayak,
Gabor Szabo,
MC5,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kurtis Blow,
The Smiths,
Severed Heads,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Association,
Yazoo,
Whodini,
Throbbing Gristle,
Zero Boys,
Jimmy McGriff,
Negative Approach,
The Martian,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Monochrome Set,
Dark Day,
Hot Snakes,
JFA,
Pantytec,
Peter and Kerry,
Nico,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.