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 Bulgaria and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the grime 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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Absolute Body Control,
The Doobie Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pet Shop Boys,
Rhythm & Sound,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Flipper,
The Gun Club,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Simply Red,
Eric Copeland,
Wings,
Arab on Radar,
Marmalade,
Ten City,
Camberwell Now,
The Misunderstood,
Brand Nubian,
The Index,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Babytalk,
the Slits,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ohio Players,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minny Pops,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sugar Minott,
Colin Newman,
Fatback Band,
ABBA,
DJ Sneak,
Skarface,
Aloha Tigers,
Yaz,
Suicide,
Blake Baxter,
Crispian St. Peters,
Barbara Tucker,
Todd Terry,
Blancmange,
Joey Negro,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Porter Ricks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soul II Soul,
Al Stewart,
Mark Hollis,
Gerry Rafferty,
CMW,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Fall,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tres Demented,
The Remains,
Derrick May,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
cv313,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.