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 Uruguay and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Gories 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Malaria!,
Dorothy Ashby,
Idris Muhammad,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dave Gahan,
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Neu!,
Peter & Gordon,
Babytalk,
Davy DMX,
Hot Snakes,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Susan Cadogan,
Sällskapet,
Das Ding,
PIL,
Scientists,
Erasure,
Mr. Review,
Pantaleimon,
Loose Ends,
The Gun Club,
Scrapy,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Durutti Column,
The Cowsills,
Kenny Larkin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bill Near,
Chrome,
Scratch Acid,
Liliput,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Hood,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
David McCallum,
June of 44,
Soft Cell,
Black Bananas,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Neil Young,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Curtis Mayfield,
Delta 5,
China Crisis,
Circle Jerks,
The Buckinghams,
Fugazi,
Lalann,
The Doobie Brothers,
Roxette,
Masters at Work,
The Walker Brothers,
Wally Richardson,
Joe Smooth,
The Associates,
Chris Corsano,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.