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 France and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Glasgow.
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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin 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 Deakin to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Angels of Light,
Frankie Knuckles,
Minor Threat,
Dennis Brown,
Arcadia,
Urselle,
Blake Baxter,
Schoolly D,
The Pretty Things,
Brass Construction,
The Divine Comedy,
a-ha,
Brick,
Ten City,
Duran Duran,
Oblivians,
The Electric Prunes,
Index,
The Wake,
The Blackbyrds,
Pulsallama,
Eurythmics,
Youth Brigade,
Quadrant,
Barrington Levy,
Echospace,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eric Copeland,
Colin Newman,
Barry Ungar,
Kenny Larkin,
Bronski Beat,
The Buckinghams,
Scratch Acid,
Hardrive,
Desert Stars,
Mo-Dettes,
Gil Scott Heron,
Yellowson,
Roger Hodgson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Teasers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dorothy Ashby,
Roxette,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sparks,
Cheater Slicks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Freddie Wadling,
Pere Ubu,
The Searchers,
the Germs,
Spoonie Gee,
Lungfish,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare.
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.