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 Dominica and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Marcia Griffiths to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Fear,
Eli Mardock,
Deadbeat,
Eric B and Rakim,
Public Image Ltd.,
Blake Baxter,
Boz Scaggs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Shadows of Knight,
Technova,
Ten City,
Sandy B,
Skriet,
Archie Shepp,
The Gap Band,
Slick Rick,
Brand Nubian,
Amazonics,
Ultravox,
Inner City,
Bill Wells,
Tears for Fears,
The Blackbyrds,
EPMD,
a-ha,
Scrapy,
Godley & Creme,
The Cowsills,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Maleditus Sound,
The Human League,
Metal Thangz,
The Smiths,
The Stooges,
Pole,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scott Walker,
Parry Music,
the Germs,
The Neon Judgement,
Junior Murvin,
Flash Fearless,
Black Moon,
Yazoo,
Pagans,
Accadde A,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Monolake,
Vladislav Delay,
U.S. Maple,
Arab on Radar,
Soft Machine,
Bronski Beat,
Aswad,
The Dave Clark Five,
Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop.
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.