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 Japan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gerry Rafferty to the rap 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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 Mummies,
Donald Byrd,
Sound Behaviour,
The Sound,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Seeds,
Animal Collective,
The Modern Lovers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scientists,
Harmonia,
Boredoms,
Joe Finger,
Prince Buster,
Grauzone,
Colin Newman,
The Beau Brummels,
Eden Ahbez,
Marc Almond,
Minny Pops,
Tubeway Army,
The Moleskins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jerry's Kids,
Essential Logic,
Roger Hodgson,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camberwell Now,
Jeru the Damaja,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scion,
New Age Steppers,
Chris & Cosey,
Avey Tare,
the Germs,
The Fortunes,
Sam Rivers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stetsasonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tim Buckley,
Tears for Fears,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Womack,
One Last Wish,
Iggy Pop,
D'Angelo,
Gang of Four,
Can,
Bobby Sherman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Faraquet,
Sexual Harrassment,
Soft Cell,
The Raincoats,
Franke,
Blake Baxter,
Michelle Simonal,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Marcia Griffiths,
Youth Brigade,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.