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 Ecuador and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pagans to the punk 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
Fluxion,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Radiohead,
The Gun Club,
The Red Krayola,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fat Boys,
Brothers Johnson,
The Gladiators,
ABBA,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Organ,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Arthur Verocai,
Boz Scaggs,
The Smoke,
Donny Hathaway,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Groovy Waters,
Jesper Dahlback,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Glenn Branca,
Darondo,
Nils Olav,
Anthony Braxton,
Scan 7,
Nik Kershaw,
Television Personalities,
Letta Mbulu,
Sandy B,
The Leaves,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Last Poets,
The Walker Brothers,
Newcleus,
Easy Going,
David Bowie,
DJ Style,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Monks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Derrick May,
Dennis Brown,
The Remains,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eric Copeland,
Roxy Music,
Harry Pussy,
Magma,
Urselle,
The Tremeloes,
Gang Green,
The Black Dice,
Gregory Isaacs,
Michelle Simonal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ralphi Rosario,
FM Einheit,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.