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 Serbia and from Lyon.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kaleidoscope to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sex Pistols. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Buckinghams,
Janne Schatter,
The Cure,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Isaac Hayes,
Soulsonic Force,
Scrapy,
Spandau Ballet,
Country Joe & The Fish,
June Days,
Donny Hathaway,
Unrelated Segments,
Letta Mbulu,
JFA,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Oneida,
Wings,
Sparks,
LL Cool J,
The Five Americans,
Godley & Creme,
The Move,
Boredoms,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Selecter,
Soul II Soul,
Delon & Dalcan,
Erasure,
Soul Sonic Force,
Technova,
Bobby Sherman,
Bob Dylan,
Metal Thangz,
Make Up,
Agitation Free,
The Mojo Men,
Country Teasers,
Hoover,
Lungfish,
Cheater Slicks,
Kas Product,
Zero Boys,
Altered Images,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marmalade,
The Zeros,
Adolescents,
Pantytec,
Bad Manners,
The Motions,
Davy DMX,
The Real Kids,
Surgeon,
Clear Light,
The Monochrome Set,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Slits,
Quadrant,
E-Dancer,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.