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 Syria and from Toronto.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Alphaville to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Gregory Isaacs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Judy Mowatt,
Minny Pops,
E-Dancer,
The Cowsills,
Dennis Brown,
Crispy Ambulance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alton Ellis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Aural Exciters,
kango's stein massive,
Bob Dylan,
Patti Smith,
DNA,
Ornette Coleman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bizarre Inc.,
Crispian St. Peters,
June of 44,
T.S.O.L.,
Visage,
Massinfluence,
Malaria!,
Lower 48,
Althea and Donna,
Oneida,
Au Pairs,
Amon Düül,
Camouflage,
Country Teasers,
Marmalade,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Freddie Wadling,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Faraquet,
The Move,
Newcleus,
Flamin' Groovies,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Grandmaster Flash,
Accadde A,
Underground Resistance,
Grauzone,
CMW,
Bush Tetras,
Connie Case,
Howard Jones,
Derrick Morgan,
Ludus,
Carl Craig,
Organ,
Steve Hackett,
Interpol,
The Victims,
Sex Pistols,
The Count Five,
Ken Boothe,
Susan Cadogan,
Soft Machine,
Wings,
Lungfish,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.