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 Luxembourg and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gabor Szabo to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris Corsano record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Ohio Players,
Lebanon Hanover,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Red Krayola,
Flipper,
Groovy Waters,
Stetsasonic,
cv313,
10cc,
Chris Corsano,
Y Pants,
The Dave Clark Five,
Harry Pussy,
Trumans Water,
Connie Case,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Susan Cadogan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Skatalites,
Clear Light,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nils Olav,
John Cale,
Hashim,
Bob Dylan,
T. Rex,
Rosa Yemen,
Davy DMX,
Ken Boothe,
Aloha Tigers,
Hoover,
Yellowson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
PIL,
Icehouse,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Tremeloes,
Grauzone,
AZ,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bobbi Humphrey,
X-101,
Skriet,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sällskapet,
Motorama,
The Dirtbombs,
Talk Talk,
The Gories,
Niagra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pussy Galore,
Bill Near,
Derrick May,
Roger Hodgson,
Byron Stingily,
Lower 48,
Quadrant,
Con Funk Shun,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.