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 Russia and from Columbus.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Soul Sonic Force to the punk 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 The Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Ultravox,
Lakeside,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rotary Connection,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Deepchord,
Suicide,
Moebius,
Amazonics,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nils Olav,
Andrew Hill,
Joensuu 1685,
Circle Jerks,
The Star Department,
Inner City,
Eric B and Rakim,
Depeche Mode,
The Moody Blues,
Sixth Finger,
Interpol,
Eurythmics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jawbox,
Pagans,
Agitation Free,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Howard Jones,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Motions,
Television,
In Retrospect,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cymande,
Delon & Dalcan,
Con Funk Shun,
The Fall,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gil Scott Heron,
Marmalade,
Marine Girls,
B.T. Express,
CMW,
Minor Threat,
Jandek,
The Fuzztones,
Gabor Szabo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DJ Sneak,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Johnny Osbourne,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
kango's stein massive,
Don Cherry,
Aaron Thompson,
Crooked Eye,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.