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 Paraguay and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 John Foxx to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Monolake,
a-ha,
The Saints,
Television Personalities,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Human League,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Surgeon,
Isaac Hayes,
Toni Rubio,
The Music Machine,
Roxy Music,
Soul Sonic Force,
Zapp,
Rites of Spring,
Fugazi,
Donny Hathaway,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Slits,
Max Romeo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Toasters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Siglo XX,
Robert Görl,
The Gap Band,
The New Christs,
Porter Ricks,
Soulsonic Force,
The Monochrome Set,
The Buckinghams,
Yaz,
Shoche,
The Blues Magoos,
Khruangbin,
The Barracudas,
The Beau Brummels,
Darondo,
World's Most,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
X-101,
EPMD,
Popol Vuh,
Ornette Coleman,
Ituana,
Lalann,
Icehouse,
Funkadelic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Flamin' Groovies,
Al Stewart,
Saccharine Trust,
Tubeway Army,
KRS-One,
Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment.
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.