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 Tanzania and from Beijing.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 This Heat 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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb 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 güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Duran Duran,
Lungfish,
Nick Fraelich,
Suicide,
Neil Young,
The Neon Judgement,
OOIOO,
Zapp,
Minny Pops,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Marmalade,
Sonic Youth,
Alphaville,
The Moody Blues,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Spoonie Gee,
The Grass Roots,
Max Romeo,
The Barracudas,
The Red Krayola,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alton Ellis,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Magazine,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sugar Minott,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dual Sessions,
Depeche Mode,
E-Dancer,
The Names,
Jesper Dahlback,
Simply Red,
The Sonics,
Pagans,
Roxy Music,
Yaz,
Porter Ricks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
This Heat,
Zero Boys,
Deepchord,
Public Image Ltd.,
Oblivians,
Basic Channel,
The Techniques,
Colin Newman,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Livin' Joy,
a-ha,
Joe Finger,
Nas,
Masters at Work,
Nico,
Iggy Pop,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.