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 Greece and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Portland.
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 mellotron 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 Faust to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Monks,
The Beau Brummels,
The Neon Judgement,
Godley & Creme,
The Doors,
Letta Mbulu,
The Cure,
Clear Light,
Au Pairs,
The Smiths,
Freddie Wadling,
Fatback Band,
Tres Demented,
Don Cherry,
Nick Fraelich,
Albert Ayler,
Patti Smith,
Motorama,
Cameo,
The Modern Lovers,
Dennis Brown,
Pylon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shuggie Otis,
Fad Gadget,
Josef K,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rotary Connection,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Porter Ricks,
Nas,
The Associates,
Brand Nubian,
Half Japanese,
Eve St. Jones,
Gastr Del Sol,
Boogie Down Productions,
Organ,
Blossom Toes,
Procol Harum,
The Birthday Party,
Roxette,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sex Pistols,
Television,
Inner City,
Marine Girls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Magma,
Fugazi,
This Heat,
Jacob Miller,
Hashim,
Soul II Soul,
The Golliwogs,
Michelle Simonal,
Barbara Tucker,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
June of 44,
Unrelated Segments,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.