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 Argentina and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Nico to the techno 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Howard Jones,
Oneida,
Los Fastidios,
Andrew Hill,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Duran Duran,
the Sonics,
Chris & Cosey,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Soulsonic Force,
Goldenarms,
Spoonie Gee,
Nick Fraelich,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Gap Band,
Rites of Spring,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pere Ubu,
Little Man,
Skarface,
Minor Threat,
Traffic Nightmare,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Section 25,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Interpol,
Whodini,
a-ha,
Yazoo,
The Music Machine,
Radiopuhelimet,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Detroit Cobras,
Funky Four + One,
Warsaw,
X-Ray Spex,
Index,
Hardrive,
Wally Richardson,
Junior Murvin,
Desert Stars,
Warren Ellis,
Byron Stingily,
Moebius,
Dave Gahan,
Althea and Donna,
Mandrill,
the Normal,
Qualms,
Pantaleimon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Panda Bear,
Jeru the Damaja,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.