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 Djibouti and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Khruangbin to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Infiniti,
Soft Cell,
Toni Rubio,
The Invisible,
Soul II Soul,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Marmalade,
Simply Red,
Maurizio,
Bootsy Collins,
Marcia Griffiths,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alison Limerick,
Babytalk,
a-ha,
The Mojo Men,
Steve Hackett,
Eddi Front,
Hardrive,
Electric Prunes,
Depeche Mode,
Hasil Adkins,
Organ,
Amon Düül II,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Audionom,
Jandek,
The Beau Brummels,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jesper Dahlback,
Faraquet,
KRS-One,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Selecter,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barry Ungar,
Bronski Beat,
Agitation Free,
MDC,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Byron Stingily,
New Age Steppers,
Young Marble Giants,
Letta Mbulu,
The Leaves,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Index,
John Cale,
Arthur Verocai,
Susan Cadogan,
Jawbox,
Ken Boothe,
Icehouse,
Sonic Youth,
Youth Brigade,
Charles Mingus,
Skriet,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.