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 Barbados and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 cv313 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Deepchord,
Quando Quango,
Warsaw,
T. Rex,
Newcleus,
Essential Logic,
Moebius,
Marvin Gaye,
Echospace,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eric Dolphy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Neil Young,
Donald Byrd,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sällskapet,
Gong,
Sex Pistols,
The Dead C,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
John Foxx,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Scott Walker,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Black Bananas,
Andrew Hill,
Nirvana,
Reuben Wilson,
John Coltrane,
Rites of Spring,
Swell Maps,
Gang Green,
Underground Resistance,
The Monks,
Urselle,
Soul II Soul,
A Certain Ratio,
The Toasters,
The Modern Lovers,
The Offenders,
Infiniti,
The Skatalites,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crash Course in Science,
The Mighty Diamonds,
CMW,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Invisible,
Fatback Band,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Fugs,
Spandau Ballet,
Steve Hackett,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.