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 Bolivia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Livin' Joy to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Yazoo,
Deadbeat,
Shuggie Otis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
F. McDonald,
Severed Heads,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Excepter,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Negative Approach,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
R.M.O.,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Outsiders,
Section 25,
Rotary Connection,
The Blackbyrds,
Maurizio,
Brick,
Gang Green,
Barclay James Harvest,
FM Einheit,
The Invisible,
The J.B.'s,
The Stooges,
Grey Daturas,
Roxy Music,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Massinfluence,
Khruangbin,
Supertramp,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moby Grape,
Metal Thangz,
The Happenings,
Ossler,
The Detroit Cobras,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Underground Resistance,
Sun Ra,
Duran Duran,
Man Parrish,
Mandrill,
Sun City Girls,
Desert Stars,
The Moody Blues,
Cybotron,
Slick Rick,
Mad Mike,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.