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 Korea South and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gichy Dan to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Ronan,
The Dead C,
The Velvet Underground,
Blancmange,
Peter & Gordon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Erasure,
Little Man,
Bobby Womack,
Janne Schatter,
Tommy Roe,
Fad Gadget,
Gastr Del Sol,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dorothy Ashby,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dual Sessions,
Neil Young,
Neu!,
Thompson Twins,
Quadrant,
Boogie Down Productions,
Hashim,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Gap Band,
Moby Grape,
The Modern Lovers,
Section 25,
X-102,
The Young Rascals,
Derrick Morgan,
Dead Boys,
Spandau Ballet,
CMW,
Max Romeo,
EPMD,
Amazonics,
Eric Copeland,
Mo-Dettes,
Bill Wells,
Sonic Youth,
Hardrive,
James White and The Blacks,
Scion,
Saccharine Trust,
Mary Jane Girls,
The United States of America,
Roxette,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pole,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Trumans Water,
Nas,
The Fire Engines,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mad Mike,
The Associates,
Crime,
Mars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.