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 Portugal and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 guitar 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 Arab on Radar to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Angels of Light,
The Index,
Theoretical Girls,
Morten Harket,
Robert Hood,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Searchers,
Graham Central Station,
The Selecter,
Nik Kershaw,
Soft Cell,
Piero Umiliani,
Model 500,
Erykah Badu,
Rapeman,
Audionom,
Mo-Dettes,
New York Dolls,
The Cure,
Oblivians,
Little Man,
Ultravox,
Television Personalities,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Country Teasers,
Funkadelic,
Hasil Adkins,
The Barracudas,
Amazonics,
X-102,
Unwound,
the Sonics,
Panda Bear,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Loose Ends,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Derrick May,
Tubeway Army,
The Misunderstood,
the Normal,
Barbara Tucker,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Letta Mbulu,
The Modern Lovers,
Mandrill,
Essential Logic,
The Litter,
Man Parrish,
Thompson Twins,
Visage,
Harmonia,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Absolute Body Control,
The Remains,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Oneida,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.