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 Nauru and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rosa Yemen to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Whodini,
Black Flag,
8 Eyed Spy,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Blossom Toes,
Max Romeo,
Second Layer,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Buzzcocks,
Magazine,
Sällskapet,
Hasil Adkins,
The Misunderstood,
Kurtis Blow,
Freddie Wadling,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Clear Light,
Ronan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
E-Dancer,
Mary Jane Girls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Mojo Men,
Wolf Eyes,
Oblivians,
Angry Samoans,
Rosa Yemen,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
the Swans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sparks,
Sister Nancy,
New Age Steppers,
The Names,
MC5,
Cal Tjader,
The Monochrome Set,
La Düsseldorf,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hoover,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Deadbeat,
a-ha,
The Dead C,
Silicon Teens,
Man Eating Sloth,
Banda Bassotti,
Dawn Penn,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Donald Byrd,
Vladislav Delay,
Danielle Patucci,
Minny Pops,
Joensuu 1685,
Sixth Finger,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Brick,
Juan Atkins,
The Buckinghams,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.