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 Lebanon and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Oneida to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Darondo,
Rites of Spring,
Ultravox,
Dennis Brown,
Quando Quango,
Alphaville,
a-ha,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Reuben Wilson,
Ronan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
cv313,
Television Personalities,
Michelle Simonal,
Wings,
Outsiders,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Roxette,
L. Decosne,
The Birthday Party,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Brothers Johnson,
Erasure,
AZ,
Visage,
Susan Cadogan,
Sällskapet,
Buzzcocks,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lou Christie,
Junior Murvin,
Barbara Tucker,
Brick,
Mo-Dettes,
10cc,
Al Stewart,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
One Last Wish,
The Electric Prunes,
Sixth Finger,
Man Parrish,
Dual Sessions,
Oneida,
Rakim,
The Cowsills,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Q65,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Dead C,
Kerri Chandler,
ABC,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Marmalade,
Pylon,
Mantronix,
Lou Reed,
Davy DMX,
Soul II Soul,
Negative Approach,
Eli Mardock,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.