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 Benin and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Aaron Thompson to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
Nico,
Brand Nubian,
Kerri Chandler,
The Skatalites,
The Star Department,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dave Gahan,
Gastr Del Sol,
The New Christs,
a-ha,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ralphi Rosario,
Dual Sessions,
Jeff Mills,
Wally Richardson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Aaron Thompson,
The Beau Brummels,
Eurythmics,
Soul II Soul,
Fugazi,
Make Up,
Ultra Naté,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Raincoats,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Vogues,
Steve Hackett,
Tom Boy,
Oneida,
Gang Green,
Lindisfarne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Standells,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sixth Finger,
Eric Dolphy,
Yaz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Terrestrial Tones,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Electric Prunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Quadrant,
Harmonia,
Japan,
The Last Poets,
Babytalk,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ken Boothe,
Morten Harket,
Half Japanese,
Talk Talk,
The Stooges,
Das Ding,
Skriet,
48th St. Collective,
Delta 5,
Blancmange,
Slick Rick,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.