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 Albania and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Alphaville to the jazz 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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Faraquet,
Los Fastidios,
Todd Rundgren,
Soulsonic Force,
The Standells,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Derrick May,
Wolf Eyes,
This Heat,
Connie Case,
The Barracudas,
Trumans Water,
Kool Moe Dee,
Terrestrial Tones,
Scratch Acid,
Kerri Chandler,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Can,
Qualms,
Mary Jane Girls,
Vainqueur,
Cheater Slicks,
Tomorrow,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Schoolly D,
The Toasters,
Ken Boothe,
Big Daddy Kane,
Alphaville,
The Doors,
Index,
Flash Fearless,
Brand Nubian,
Technova,
Marshall Jefferson,
John Cale,
The Litter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Godley & Creme,
Byron Stingily,
The Cure,
Fluxion,
Prince Buster,
the Slits,
Bronski Beat,
The Names,
Flipper,
the Human League,
Nirvana,
The Modern Lovers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Moby Grape,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Knickerbockers,
The Cramps,
Donald Byrd,
Sällskapet,
Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel.
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.