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 Ecuador and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the crunk 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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
James White and The Blacks,
The Invisible,
Pantaleimon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Remains,
Letta Mbulu,
The Buckinghams,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tommy Roe,
Joey Negro,
Sound Behaviour,
Ludus,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mr. Review,
Kerrie Biddell,
Altered Images,
Barrington Levy,
Oblivians,
Marc Almond,
Model 500,
Goldenarms,
Ultravox,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tomorrow,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cheater Slicks,
Cameo,
Q and Not U,
Au Pairs,
Lalo Schifrin,
These Immortal Souls,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Soft Cell,
Big Daddy Kane,
Angry Samoans,
Sister Nancy,
The Neon Judgement,
Jeff Mills,
Oneida,
Boz Scaggs,
Steve Hackett,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chris Corsano,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fall,
The Doors,
Monolake,
Alison Limerick,
Porter Ricks,
The Monochrome Set,
Michelle Simonal,
Curtis Mayfield,
FM Einheit,
Heaven 17,
The Mojo Men,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Chrome,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.