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 Nicaragua and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 guitar 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 Stetsasonic to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Spoonie Gee,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Soft Cell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
FM Einheit,
The Beau Brummels,
Letta Mbulu,
Mo-Dettes,
Heaven 17,
Porter Ricks,
Scratch Acid,
The Skatalites,
Steve Hackett,
The Cowsills,
Andrew Hill,
The Associates,
K-Klass,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eric B and Rakim,
DJ Style,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Zeros,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Enemy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Depeche Mode,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ralphi Rosario,
In Retrospect,
Yaz,
DJ Sneak,
The Doobie Brothers,
Camouflage,
Susan Cadogan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jeff Mills,
Leonard Cohen,
Dead Boys,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Radiopuhelimet,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gong,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Bar-Kays,
The Five Americans,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Standells,
Unwound,
Thompson Twins,
Kerrie Biddell,
New York Dolls,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.