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 Macedonia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Anakelly to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
The Electric Prunes,
Cymande,
Roxette,
Moss Icon,
Visage,
Oneida,
Ten City,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gerry Rafferty,
Funkadelic,
Pole,
Electric Prunes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mars,
Fatback Band,
Dawn Penn,
Aswad,
a-ha,
Schoolly D,
Thee Headcoats,
Con Funk Shun,
The Associates,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Kinks,
Parry Music,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ituana,
Ralphi Rosario,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Yellowson,
The Dead C,
Intrusion,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Robert Hood,
Cal Tjader,
Lungfish,
Clear Light,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Tremeloes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Arcadia,
Al Stewart,
Rotary Connection,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Andrew Hill,
The Gap Band,
La Düsseldorf,
Kurtis Blow,
David Axelrod,
Banda Bassotti,
Gichy Dan,
Tomorrow,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tres Demented,
Icehouse,
Prince Buster,
The Music Machine,
The Vogues,
DNA,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.