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 Iraq and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Marshall Jefferson to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Angels of Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispian St. Peters,
Roy Ayers,
Derrick Morgan,
The Offenders,
Johnny Osbourne,
Guru Guru,
The Litter,
Lyres,
Joy Division,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erasure,
Pulsallama,
David McCallum,
Lalann,
Charles Mingus,
Yusef Lateef,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Derrick May,
Public Enemy,
Silicon Teens,
Hardrive,
Tom Boy,
the Swans,
The Sound,
Grey Daturas,
Ultra Naté,
The Tremeloes,
Aswad,
Bobby Byrd,
Procol Harum,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kayak,
Loose Ends,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Flipper,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Yaz,
The Smiths,
Kerri Chandler,
Anthony Braxton,
Accadde A,
Janne Schatter,
The Slackers,
The Barracudas,
Eddi Front,
Agent Orange,
Khruangbin,
Circle Jerks,
The Gories,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Neon Judgement,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siglo XX,
Stetsasonic,
Albert Ayler,
Swans,
Jesper Dahlback,
Blancmange,
Tommy Roe,
The Fugs,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.