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 Serbia 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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Toasters to the dance 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
D'Angelo,
Nils Olav,
Derrick Morgan,
Bootsy Collins,
The Young Rascals,
This Heat,
Bauhaus,
Easy Going,
John Coltrane,
Bang On A Can,
Silicon Teens,
Stereo Dub,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Mo-Dettes,
The Smiths,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lungfish,
The Real Kids,
The Zeros,
Spandau Ballet,
Chris Corsano,
Erasure,
Eurythmics,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jawbox,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Throbbing Gristle,
Spoonie Gee,
Deepchord,
Bronski Beat,
MC5,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Schoolly D,
Boredoms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Judy Mowatt,
New Order,
Bill Near,
Sparks,
Agitation Free,
Brand Nubian,
The Modern Lovers,
Severed Heads,
Connie Case,
The Kinks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Minor Threat,
Dave Gahan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
E-Dancer,
June of 44,
Amon Düül II,
John Foxx,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roy Ayers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Howard Jones,
Wings,
Gabor Szabo,
Black Pus,
Matthew Bourne,
The Monochrome Set,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.