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 Singapore and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Visage 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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Gladiators,
Model 500,
Cheater Slicks,
Flipper,
Blake Baxter,
These Immortal Souls,
A Certain Ratio,
Soulsonic Force,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Associates,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tubeway Army,
Ornette Coleman,
Hoover,
Television,
Nas,
Negative Approach,
Underground Resistance,
Ossler,
Eric Dolphy,
UT,
The Seeds,
The New Christs,
Skaos,
Faust,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Arthur Verocai,
Joe Finger,
Boz Scaggs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Al Stewart,
Kas Product,
Funky Four + One,
Isaac Hayes,
Talk Talk,
Parry Music,
Q65,
Monks,
The Modern Lovers,
Basic Channel,
Delta 5,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Monochrome Set,
Dead Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Big Daddy Kane,
kango's stein massive,
Technova,
Bobby Womack,
ABBA,
Average White Band,
Rotary Connection,
Janne Schatter,
L. Decosne,
Mission of Burma,
Adolescents,
Sun City Girls,
Qualms,
Pylon,
Arcadia,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.