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 Lebanon and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Das Ding to the funk 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Trojans,
Steve Hackett,
Kaleidoscope,
Grauzone,
Hashim,
Matthew Halsall,
Roxy Music,
Sällskapet,
Black Flag,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
EPMD,
Tommy Roe,
KRS-One,
Joe Finger,
John Holt,
Cheater Slicks,
Ultravox,
The Blues Magoos,
John Lydon,
The Real Kids,
Kenny Larkin,
Gabor Szabo,
Metal Thangz,
Zero Boys,
Boz Scaggs,
Cecil Taylor,
Model 500,
Anthony Braxton,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Joe Smooth,
Agitation Free,
Sandy B,
Animal Collective,
Zapp,
Black Moon,
Mantronix,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eddi Front,
One Last Wish,
Alphaville,
Thompson Twins,
Dennis Brown,
The Monochrome Set,
The Move,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sonic Youth,
FM Einheit,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
cv313,
Carl Craig,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Womack,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scrapy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.