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 Bahrain and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Al Stewart to the jazz 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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aswad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Brass Construction,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marc Almond,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Anthony Braxton,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Masters at Work,
David Bowie,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Cowsills,
These Immortal Souls,
Mo-Dettes,
Q and Not U,
The Fire Engines,
Grey Daturas,
ABBA,
Ponytail,
the Soft Cell,
Johnny Osbourne,
LL Cool J,
Tommy Roe,
New Age Steppers,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Durutti Column,
Todd Rundgren,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
In Retrospect,
The United States of America,
Pierre Henry,
Yazoo,
the Slits,
the Association,
Wasted Youth,
T.S.O.L.,
Buzzcocks,
Inner City,
Panda Bear,
Mary Jane Girls,
Livin' Joy,
Ronan,
Pere Ubu,
Kayak,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sight & Sound,
OOIOO,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gun Club,
The Gap Band,
a-ha,
Cybotron,
Franke,
Aaron Thompson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Average White Band,
Subhumans,
Skaos,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eden Ahbez,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.