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 Dominican Republic and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Dead C to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Drive Like Jehu,
Crash Course in Science,
Morten Harket,
John Holt,
Sixth Finger,
The Red Krayola,
The Beau Brummels,
Bill Near,
Babytalk,
James White and The Blacks,
The Golliwogs,
Rakim,
Cymande,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Andrew Hill,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Hardrive,
Eddi Front,
Althea and Donna,
Ken Boothe,
E-Dancer,
Pylon,
Janne Schatter,
The Happenings,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Underground Resistance,
Black Sheep,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
OOIOO,
Silicon Teens,
Simply Red,
Jacob Miller,
Eurythmics,
The Cowsills,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Grass Roots,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The J.B.'s,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Can,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Model 500,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Move,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Alton Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Talk Talk,
10cc,
Boogie Down Productions,
Accadde A,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Blues Magoos,
Pole,
The Star Department,
Rites of Spring,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cheater Slicks,
In Retrospect,
LL Cool J,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.