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 Qatar and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lagos.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Harpers Bizarre to the dance 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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The J.B.'s,
The Offenders,
PIL,
Bluetip,
Cybotron,
E-Dancer,
Easy Going,
the Association,
Delon & Dalcan,
48th St. Collective,
Severed Heads,
Johnny Clarke,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Moebius,
Minnie Riperton,
The Birthday Party,
The Invisible,
Trumans Water,
Lou Reed,
Big Daddy Kane,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bill Wells,
Nas,
Faust,
Fluxion,
The Golliwogs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Althea and Donna,
ABBA,
Pylon,
Groovy Waters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Mummies,
The Fugs,
Roxy Music,
Spoonie Gee,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brick,
Amon Düül,
Clear Light,
Gastr Del Sol,
Absolute Body Control,
Franke,
Brand Nubian,
Mission of Burma,
Flash Fearless,
the Swans,
Qualms,
Godley & Creme,
Glambeats Corp.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Amon Düül II,
Technova,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Swans,
The Modern Lovers,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.