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 Cuba and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Boogie Down Productions,
Schoolly D,
Model 500,
Yaz,
Charles Mingus,
Black Bananas,
Sight & Sound,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Patti Smith,
Davy DMX,
The Associates,
Archie Shepp,
Ohio Players,
Eric Copeland,
Mary Jane Girls,
Arcadia,
Smog,
Nick Fraelich,
Shoche,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Fugs,
The Gap Band,
Ituana,
Black Flag,
Flamin' Groovies,
Depeche Mode,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aloha Tigers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Quantec,
The Cure,
Inner City,
Deakin,
Bronski Beat,
Visage,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ultravox,
Kas Product,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Oneida,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Easy Going,
Blake Baxter,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gong,
Wasted Youth,
Television Personalities,
Circle Jerks,
Alice Coltrane,
Thompson Twins,
Silicon Teens,
The United States of America,
Avey Tare,
Steve Hackett,
DJ Sneak,
The Sonics,
Outsiders,
Peter and Kerry,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.