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 Mongolia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes 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 Sun Ra to the jazz 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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radio Birdman,
The Angels of Light,
10cc,
Warren Ellis,
Barrington Levy,
The Mummies,
Mandrill,
The Monochrome Set,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ronan,
Minnie Riperton,
Scrapy,
UT,
Bluetip,
Moebius,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sugar Minott,
The Residents,
The Toasters,
X-Ray Spex,
Nas,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Newcleus,
Bauhaus,
Brass Construction,
Pussy Galore,
Junior Murvin,
Zero Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Accadde A,
Saccharine Trust,
Derrick May,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marine Girls,
The Searchers,
PIL,
Joy Division,
Freddie Wadling,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tomorrow,
Camouflage,
KRS-One,
MDC,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eden Ahbez,
The Barracudas,
One Last Wish,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Isaac Hayes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Heaven 17,
AZ,
The Dirtbombs,
Ultravox,
Morten Harket,
Chris & Cosey,
Nico,
The Smiths,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Minny Pops,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.