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 Andorra and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare 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 The Shadows of Knight to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cowsills,
Black Moon,
Marmalade,
Smog,
Model 500,
Simply Red,
Eurythmics,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Kurtis Blow,
Kayak,
The American Breed,
Fluxion,
The Golliwogs,
Main Source,
Y Pants,
Young Marble Giants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Public Enemy,
Whodini,
Fear,
U.S. Maple,
Agitation Free,
Bill Wells,
Harmonia,
Yazoo,
Tim Buckley,
Lightning Bolt,
Bush Tetras,
Bluetip,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dark Day,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eric Copeland,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ohio Players,
The Misunderstood,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Schoolly D,
The Electric Prunes,
E-Dancer,
Jacob Miller,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Slits,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sound Behaviour,
Ronnie Foster,
The Happenings,
Saccharine Trust,
Tommy Roe,
Eddi Front,
Panda Bear,
John Cale,
John Lydon,
The Blues Magoos,
The New Christs,
Can,
Terry Callier,
Deadbeat,
Boz Scaggs,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.