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 Croatia and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Duran Duran to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
E-Dancer,
Fluxion,
FM Einheit,
Deakin,
Tomorrow,
DJ Style,
Chris Corsano,
Donny Hathaway,
Man Parrish,
Yazoo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
U.S. Maple,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Albert Ayler,
Todd Terry,
The Modern Lovers,
Sixth Finger,
Lalann,
Index,
Max Romeo,
Siglo XX,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gang Green,
The Misunderstood,
Steve Hackett,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cecil Taylor,
Aural Exciters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Quantec,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Flash Fearless,
Soulsonic Force,
Anakelly,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Section 25,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Au Pairs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Searchers,
Spandau Ballet,
Mars,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jeff Mills,
Peter & Gordon,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Von Mondo,
Derrick May,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Electric Prunes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Agitation Free,
Traffic Nightmare,
Robert Wyatt,
Lindisfarne,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kas Product,
The Fall,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.