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 Libya and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the funk 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
June Days,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Moleskins,
Reuben Wilson,
Crooked Eye,
D'Angelo,
Godley & Creme,
Sparks,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Smoke,
Tres Demented,
Scion,
New Age Steppers,
Junior Murvin,
Graham Central Station,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Wolf Eyes,
Patti Smith,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Little Man,
The Mojo Men,
The Beau Brummels,
The Doobie Brothers,
Los Fastidios,
Symarip,
The Buckinghams,
The Real Kids,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Porter Ricks,
H. Thieme,
Jerry's Kids,
Cluster,
EPMD,
Alton Ellis,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crispian St. Peters,
Khruangbin,
Nils Olav,
Arcadia,
The Litter,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Fear,
The Moody Blues,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Section 25,
The Skatalites,
Kenny Larkin,
Black Flag,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cymande,
Eurythmics,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Depeche Mode,
Glambeats Corp.,
Curtis Mayfield,
Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone.
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.