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 Monaco and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 Index to the techno 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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Lungfish,
T.S.O.L.,
Howard Jones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lebanon Hanover,
Whodini,
The Cowsills,
Danielle Patucci,
Sugar Minott,
Crooked Eye,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Susan Cadogan,
Freddie Wadling,
Soul Sonic Force,
Harry Pussy,
The Busters,
Ornette Coleman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jimmy McGriff,
Moebius,
Niagra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Drexciya,
Sam Rivers,
B.T. Express,
Ralphi Rosario,
Carl Craig,
Ultravox,
Roger Hodgson,
Peter & Gordon,
Zero Boys,
the Sonics,
Reuben Wilson,
Pulsallama,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Erasure,
New York Dolls,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Modern Lovers,
The Golliwogs,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Invisible,
Lou Christie,
Bauhaus,
Ronnie Foster,
Yellowson,
Isaac Hayes,
The Gories,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Green,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sixth Finger,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Siglo XX,
The Tremeloes,
The Fire Engines,
Procol Harum,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.