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 Ukraine and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Panda Bear to the disco 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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
John Lydon,
Schoolly D,
Desert Stars,
Hashim,
Nik Kershaw,
Eurythmics,
Andrew Hill,
Silicon Teens,
Depeche Mode,
Khruangbin,
John Cale,
Eric B and Rakim,
John Foxx,
Index,
Tears for Fears,
Godley & Creme,
Derrick Morgan,
Gichy Dan,
Black Bananas,
Kas Product,
Von Mondo,
Boz Scaggs,
the Association,
Grauzone,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Television,
Brand Nubian,
Basic Channel,
Minutemen,
The Fortunes,
10cc,
T.S.O.L.,
Vainqueur,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Remains,
Avey Tare,
PIL,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Terry Callier,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Inner City,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joyce Sims,
Thompson Twins,
Fluxion,
Negative Approach,
Alton Ellis,
Lakeside,
Kurtis Blow,
UT,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Barbara Tucker,
Danielle Patucci,
Carl Craig,
Lower 48,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Television Personalities,
The Sonics,
The Dave Clark Five,
JFA,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.