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 Cape Verde and from New York.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Howard Jones to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eden Ahbez,
Dennis Brown,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Lynne,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Litter,
Essential Logic,
Nils Olav,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Mummies,
Traffic Nightmare,
Von Mondo,
Suicide,
Lyres,
Mars,
Saccharine Trust,
World's Most,
Sugar Minott,
MC5,
Ultra Naté,
Kurtis Blow,
Charles Mingus,
New York Dolls,
Tommy Roe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Scan 7,
ABBA,
Joy Division,
Massinfluence,
Robert Görl,
CMW,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Donald Byrd,
Erasure,
Moss Icon,
These Immortal Souls,
One Last Wish,
Sarah Menescal,
Panda Bear,
The United States of America,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Glambeats Corp.,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Doobie Brothers,
Brass Construction,
The Move,
Eurythmics,
The Divine Comedy,
The Misunderstood,
Erykah Badu,
Circle Jerks,
Jeff Mills,
cv313,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Flipper,
Grey Daturas,
Nico,
Joyce Sims,
Gregory Isaacs,
Crash Course in Science,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Barracudas,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.