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 Bangladesh and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Philadelphia and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb 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 Joy Division to the dance 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Drexciya,
The Busters,
The Electric Prunes,
Scientists,
David Bowie,
Cheater Slicks,
The Associates,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marcia Griffiths,
DJ Sneak,
Tom Boy,
Silicon Teens,
Matthew Bourne,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hashim,
H. Thieme,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Moleskins,
James White and The Blacks,
The United States of America,
Black Bananas,
Barclay James Harvest,
Cymande,
Simply Red,
Panda Bear,
Bronski Beat,
The Names,
Excepter,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stetsasonic,
The Count Five,
Avey Tare,
Robert Wyatt,
Byron Stingily,
Althea and Donna,
Quantec,
The Gories,
Schoolly D,
Roy Ayers,
The Seeds,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tubeway Army,
Spoonie Gee,
Lalann,
The Evens,
Isaac Hayes,
The American Breed,
Brick,
Magazine,
Wings,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Donny Hathaway,
La Düsseldorf,
Steve Hackett,
Lou Reed,
The Beau Brummels,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.