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 Pakistan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Real Kids to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Bobbi Humphrey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eric Dolphy,
Average White Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Simply Red,
Absolute Body Control,
Das Ding,
Byron Stingily,
Panda Bear,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Sonics,
Whodini,
The Velvet Underground,
The Happenings,
The Fortunes,
the Sonics,
Pylon,
Ronan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The United States of America,
The Fall,
Wally Richardson,
Shuggie Otis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Quantec,
Peter & Gordon,
Pere Ubu,
the Association,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The New Christs,
New York Dolls,
Japan,
Kenny Larkin,
Masters at Work,
Robert Wyatt,
The Black Dice,
Eddi Front,
Spoonie Gee,
Pantaleimon,
Faraquet,
Dual Sessions,
Brothers Johnson,
The Star Department,
Minutemen,
Second Layer,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Aswad,
The Cure,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Inner City,
Altered Images,
New Order,
Monks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rhythm & Sound,
Darondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Music Machine,
Judy Mowatt,
Supertramp,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.