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 Ethiopia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
One Last Wish,
Duran Duran,
Pulsallama,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sugar Minott,
Quantec,
Bang On A Can,
The Shadows of Knight,
K-Klass,
Sight & Sound,
Pussy Galore,
U.S. Maple,
Peter and Kerry,
Soul II Soul,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Todd Rundgren,
Angry Samoans,
The Moody Blues,
Q and Not U,
Flipper,
The Human League,
Adolescents,
Subhumans,
Section 25,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Popol Vuh,
Con Funk Shun,
Porter Ricks,
Accadde A,
Oneida,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Niagra,
Ultimate Spinach,
Q65,
Nils Olav,
Pharoah Sanders,
Brick,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Josef K,
The Litter,
Eurythmics,
Sonic Youth,
The Trojans,
Graham Central Station,
Mars,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pere Ubu,
Tres Demented,
Oblivians,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mantronix,
Pole,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tears for Fears,
This Heat,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.