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 Montenegro and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
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 sitar 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 Marine Girls to the rock 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt 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 '80s 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
Nick Fraelich,
Scientists,
Rakim,
Lou Christie,
David Bowie,
Blossom Toes,
Sixth Finger,
Sight & Sound,
Faust,
Joyce Sims,
Echospace,
The Count Five,
New Order,
Tears for Fears,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soul II Soul,
Rekid,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Monolake,
Duran Duran,
Black Sheep,
Hasil Adkins,
ABC,
the Human League,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joe Smooth,
Negative Approach,
Aaron Thompson,
Ronnie Foster,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fall,
Wolf Eyes,
Dark Day,
Circle Jerks,
John Lydon,
The Selecter,
Scrapy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gabor Szabo,
Jacques Brel,
Danielle Patucci,
Harry Pussy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Slackers,
Ultra Naté,
Davy DMX,
Desert Stars,
Deepchord,
Cameo,
The Saints,
Television Personalities,
Joey Negro,
Shuggie Otis,
The Fuzztones,
Ponytail,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
X-101,
Masters at Work,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.