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 Angola and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Lou Reed 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 10cc to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
The American Breed,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lee Hazlewood,
Delta 5,
Junior Murvin,
Barbara Tucker,
MDC,
Agent Orange,
Cameo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
New York Dolls,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Vainqueur,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Simply Red,
Camouflage,
Derrick May,
Flipper,
Eric B and Rakim,
Royal Trux,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Procol Harum,
The Kinks,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Adolescents,
David Axelrod,
Stetsasonic,
Scott Walker,
Sixth Finger,
Parry Music,
Bill Near,
Boredoms,
Chris & Cosey,
Davy DMX,
The Music Machine,
The Mojo Men,
A Certain Ratio,
The Fire Engines,
Faraquet,
LL Cool J,
Sight & Sound,
Duran Duran,
Al Stewart,
Joy Division,
Nils Olav,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Supertramp,
Eve St. Jones,
Mars,
Sister Nancy,
The Count Five,
Fela Kuti,
The Birthday Party,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Con Funk Shun,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Deadbeat,
the Slits,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.