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 Thailand and from Milan.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 spring reverb 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 Joyce Sims to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Star Department. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Clear Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
DJ Style,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Vogues,
Stetsasonic,
Fat Boys,
Jacob Miller,
Lee Hazlewood,
Isaac Hayes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
John Holt,
Tim Buckley,
Bootsy Collins,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mark Hollis,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobby Womack,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Average White Band,
Qualms,
Fugazi,
The Fire Engines,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eurythmics,
Joensuu 1685,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joey Negro,
Organ,
Todd Rundgren,
Jerry's Kids,
Faraquet,
Sonic Youth,
Al Stewart,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lower 48,
Man Eating Sloth,
Fatback Band,
Wolf Eyes,
In Retrospect,
Joyce Sims,
Nico,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Laurel Aitken,
Goldenarms,
Groovy Waters,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Evens,
Hardrive,
8 Eyed Spy,
Simply Red,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Move,
L. Decosne,
Agent Orange,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Radio Birdman,
Oneida,
Suicide,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.