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 Monaco and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Pretty Things to the disco 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Drexciya,
Gang Green,
Al Stewart,
Hardrive,
The Slits,
Roy Ayers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ten City,
Black Flag,
Quando Quango,
Reagan Youth,
Wings,
Urselle,
Saccharine Trust,
Absolute Body Control,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Cowsills,
Section 25,
Piero Umiliani,
Sarah Menescal,
Aloha Tigers,
Lindisfarne,
The Fugs,
The Grass Roots,
Skaos,
Erykah Badu,
Connie Case,
Lou Christie,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Robert Wyatt,
Bizarre Inc.,
Magazine,
UT,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marvin Gaye,
Eurythmics,
Sam Rivers,
LL Cool J,
Dual Sessions,
Lower 48,
Eden Ahbez,
Goldenarms,
Simply Red,
Fear,
Cal Tjader,
Youth Brigade,
Soul II Soul,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brass Construction,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Johnny Osbourne,
Magma,
Chrome,
MDC,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ituana,
Sixth Finger,
The Walker Brothers,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.