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 Taiwan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the electroclash 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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Donny Hathaway,
Marvin Gaye,
CMW,
Peter and Kerry,
Dual Sessions,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Duran Duran,
The Associates,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tubeway Army,
Roger Hodgson,
Harmonia,
R.M.O.,
Darondo,
Kenny Larkin,
The Move,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Yellowson,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Seeds,
Chris & Cosey,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Animal Collective,
The Moody Blues,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Robert Wyatt,
Brass Construction,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dark Day,
Cheater Slicks,
The Durutti Column,
Glenn Branca,
Soft Cell,
The Cowsills,
Vladislav Delay,
Loose Ends,
Babytalk,
The Remains,
Pulsallama,
The Fugs,
Monks,
ABC,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chris Corsano,
Barbara Tucker,
the Sonics,
Eric Copeland,
The Grass Roots,
Soul II Soul,
London Community Gospel Choir,
David Axelrod,
Essential Logic,
Grauzone,
Bobby Womack,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nik Kershaw,
John Foxx,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.