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 Somalia and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Aaron Thompson to the rock 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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kerri Chandler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Matthew Halsall,
Silicon Teens,
The Moody Blues,
Susan Cadogan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Hot Snakes,
Sugar Minott,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jacob Miller,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jandek,
Slick Rick,
Banda Bassotti,
Yellowson,
cv313,
Danielle Patucci,
LL Cool J,
The Monochrome Set,
Bootsy Collins,
Marmalade,
Agent Orange,
Interpol,
Radio Birdman,
Swell Maps,
The Golliwogs,
Sun Ra,
Jeff Mills,
Pussy Galore,
The American Breed,
Sonny Sharrock,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Thompson Twins,
the Human League,
Maleditus Sound,
Scion,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Average White Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Stooges,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Skatalites,
Von Mondo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Aloha Tigers,
Avey Tare,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Organ,
Joe Finger,
Absolute Body Control,
Fat Boys,
Bob Dylan,
Black Bananas,
Stockholm Monsters,
Letta Mbulu,
Eddi Front,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.