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 Angola and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 rhodes 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 Fad Gadget to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Toasters,
The American Breed,
Radio Birdman,
The Gun Club,
Banda Bassotti,
Reuben Wilson,
Aswad,
Dual Sessions,
Piero Umiliani,
Tubeway Army,
Au Pairs,
Cameo,
Isaac Hayes,
Drexciya,
The Black Dice,
Ohio Players,
In Retrospect,
Marine Girls,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joensuu 1685,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Byron Stingily,
Mark Hollis,
Gerry Rafferty,
Section 25,
Rapeman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crash Course in Science,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Association,
Cal Tjader,
Soul Sonic Force,
New York Dolls,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hasil Adkins,
The Music Machine,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barclay James Harvest,
Radiopuhelimet,
Altered Images,
Newcleus,
Albert Ayler,
Cecil Taylor,
Warren Ellis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dennis Brown,
The Names,
Brothers Johnson,
Guru Guru,
FM Einheit,
Matthew Bourne,
Lucky Dragons,
Khruangbin,
Dave Gahan,
Morten Harket,
Tommy Roe,
Los Fastidios,
Nik Kershaw,
Pet Shop Boys,
Monolake,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.