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 Kenya and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Move to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Archie Shepp,
Avey Tare,
The Barracudas,
Derrick May,
Saccharine Trust,
Alice Coltrane,
Althea and Donna,
Henry Cow,
Absolute Body Control,
Sun Ra,
Gang of Four,
The Neon Judgement,
Liliput,
China Crisis,
Bobby Byrd,
Minor Threat,
Public Enemy,
cv313,
Alphaville,
Bang On A Can,
Visage,
Mo-Dettes,
Surgeon,
Bootsy Collins,
The Red Krayola,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Happenings,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marvin Gaye,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Los Fastidios,
Zero Boys,
The Techniques,
Robert Görl,
Piero Umiliani,
Ultimate Spinach,
Symarip,
Eurythmics,
Babytalk,
David Bowie,
Darondo,
ABBA,
Lalann,
World's Most,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Victims,
The Smoke,
Junior Murvin,
Bush Tetras,
Pantytec,
Fear,
Anthony Braxton,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Stooges,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fall,
Neil Young,
Tears for Fears,
Easy Going,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.