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 Andorra and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Marc Almond to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Delon & Dalcan,
Visage,
Jeff Lynne,
EPMD,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Monochrome Set,
Talk Talk,
Kaleidoscope,
The Moody Blues,
Howard Jones,
Television Personalities,
The Modern Lovers,
Joensuu 1685,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yazoo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Graham Central Station,
Kerri Chandler,
Freddie Wadling,
Scion,
Fad Gadget,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Das Ding,
Absolute Body Control,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flamin' Groovies,
Buzzcocks,
Blake Baxter,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Circle Jerks,
Moss Icon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kool Moe Dee,
Silicon Teens,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kenny Larkin,
Lungfish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Litter,
Ultimate Spinach,
Arcadia,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fear,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grey Daturas,
Marvin Gaye,
Agitation Free,
Spoonie Gee,
Flipper,
Youth Brigade,
The Dead C,
Eric Dolphy,
MC5,
Laurel Aitken,
Mantronix,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.