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 New Zealand and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Jerry Gold Smith to the electroclash 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marine Girls,
Fad Gadget,
Warren Ellis,
Archie Shepp,
Eurythmics,
Ornette Coleman,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Public Image Ltd.,
H. Thieme,
Bad Manners,
The Motions,
Scan 7,
Metal Thangz,
U.S. Maple,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
T.S.O.L.,
The Birthday Party,
Trumans Water,
Minny Pops,
Pierre Henry,
Marcia Griffiths,
KRS-One,
Masters at Work,
The Stooges,
Alison Limerick,
Los Fastidios,
Mantronix,
Amon Düül II,
Pussy Galore,
Ossler,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lalann,
Groovy Waters,
The United States of America,
Brothers Johnson,
Bluetip,
The Angels of Light,
Half Japanese,
The Smoke,
Animal Collective,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Average White Band,
The Gun Club,
Parry Music,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sonny Sharrock,
Donny Hathaway,
La Düsseldorf,
Kaleidoscope,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sun Ra,
Agitation Free,
Joyce Sims,
LL Cool J,
This Heat,
Roxy Music,
The Mummies,
Black Flag,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.