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 Macedonia and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pere Ubu,
The Blackbyrds,
The Move,
Cal Tjader,
Ice-T,
Erykah Badu,
Sun Ra,
Josef K,
the Fania All-Stars,
Scratch Acid,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Pop Group,
Lightning Bolt,
Avey Tare,
Throbbing Gristle,
Alphaville,
The Human League,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bill Near,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lee Hazlewood,
Main Source,
Matthew Bourne,
Banda Bassotti,
Heaven 17,
Silicon Teens,
Fear,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ken Boothe,
Isaac Hayes,
Leonard Cohen,
Mary Jane Girls,
Harmonia,
New Order,
The Count Five,
Monolake,
The Associates,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cecil Taylor,
Duran Duran,
Carl Craig,
Trumans Water,
John Holt,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Star Department,
Mr. Review,
Outsiders,
OOIOO,
Bang On A Can,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Q and Not U,
Organ,
Grandmaster Flash,
Colin Newman,
Eden Ahbez,
La Düsseldorf,
D'Angelo,
Soft Machine,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.