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 Marshall Islands and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 Radiohead to the punk 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Wire,
Lakeside,
Derrick Morgan,
Rod Modell,
Anthony Braxton,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Negative Approach,
Minnie Riperton,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eric Dolphy,
Nik Kershaw,
Sugar Minott,
The Detroit Cobras,
Roy Ayers,
Young Marble Giants,
The Star Department,
Dave Gahan,
Marine Girls,
John Cale,
Rotary Connection,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Darondo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mission of Burma,
Bad Manners,
X-101,
Ponytail,
The Offenders,
The Misunderstood,
The Music Machine,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ohio Players,
The Doors,
Agent Orange,
Amon Düül,
Section 25,
The Durutti Column,
Alison Limerick,
Letta Mbulu,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Maleditus Sound,
The Doobie Brothers,
48th St. Collective,
Mo-Dettes,
The Blackbyrds,
Henry Cow,
The Buckinghams,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kurtis Blow,
Ornette Coleman,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Neil Young,
The Grass Roots,
Bronski Beat,
Interpol,
Blossom Toes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The J.B.'s,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.