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 Montenegro and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Henry Cow to the disco 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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Crash Course in Science,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eddi Front,
Drive Like Jehu,
Accadde A,
Babytalk,
Bill Wells,
Fluxion,
Soul II Soul,
The Blues Magoos,
Jesper Dahlback,
Reagan Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Iggy Pop,
Amazonics,
Mo-Dettes,
the Normal,
Terry Callier,
Grey Daturas,
World's Most,
Junior Murvin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lou Christie,
Gang of Four,
Derrick Morgan,
Brick,
Neil Young,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Outsiders,
The Raincoats,
The Evens,
Janne Schatter,
Eric Dolphy,
Flash Fearless,
Ornette Coleman,
The Blackbyrds,
Guru Guru,
The Barracudas,
Smog,
A Certain Ratio,
Wasted Youth,
ABBA,
Byron Stingily,
Curtis Mayfield,
Derrick May,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kurtis Blow,
Eve St. Jones,
Lightning Bolt,
The Electric Prunes,
Aswad,
the Bar-Kays,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nico,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Fugs,
Brass Construction,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.