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 Uruguay and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
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 synthesizer 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 Chris Corsano to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heaven 17,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DJ Sneak,
Section 25,
Marvin Gaye,
the Fania All-Stars,
Tubeway Army,
Agent Orange,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rosa Yemen,
The Kinks,
Flash Fearless,
Jawbox,
Derrick Morgan,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Young Marble Giants,
Amon Düül,
Siglo XX,
FM Einheit,
Jacob Miller,
Barry Ungar,
Kaleidoscope,
Scion,
L. Decosne,
Stiv Bators,
Pet Shop Boys,
Boz Scaggs,
Hot Snakes,
Carl Craig,
Electric Prunes,
Amon Düül II,
Wally Richardson,
Eurythmics,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Peter and Kerry,
Barbara Tucker,
The Grass Roots,
Ituana,
Mad Mike,
Yellowson,
Spoonie Gee,
Tim Buckley,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Divine Comedy,
Sun Ra,
Graham Central Station,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tomorrow,
The Knickerbockers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nik Kershaw,
Roger Hodgson,
The Velvet Underground,
Crime,
La Düsseldorf,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.