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 Kuwait and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nils Olav to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sound Behaviour,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Nirvana,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Letta Mbulu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Liliput,
Gang Green,
Kenny Larkin,
Bobby Sherman,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Tubeway Army,
Robert Hood,
The Dead C,
June of 44,
Pharoah Sanders,
Peter & Gordon,
The Blackbyrds,
Trumans Water,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dual Sessions,
10cc,
Fela Kuti,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ultra Naté,
Harpers Bizarre,
Q and Not U,
Skarface,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Music Machine,
Robert Wyatt,
Godley & Creme,
Sällskapet,
David Bowie,
48th St. Collective,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Royal Trux,
Wire,
Soul II Soul,
Soft Machine,
Funkadelic,
Lindisfarne,
Con Funk Shun,
Steve Hackett,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anakelly,
Chris Corsano,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ronan,
Audionom,
Grey Daturas,
the Bar-Kays,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Saints,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.