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 the UAE and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 One Last Wish to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a PIL record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gastr Del Sol,
Albert Ayler,
Talk Talk,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Radio Birdman,
Sam Rivers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Audionom,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gap Band,
F. McDonald,
Sun Ra,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Adolescents,
The Star Department,
The United States of America,
The Electric Prunes,
Deadbeat,
Camberwell Now,
Boz Scaggs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
H. Thieme,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hashim,
Donald Byrd,
Gang Starr,
UT,
Sound Behaviour,
R.M.O.,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultra Naté,
Bluetip,
Flash Fearless,
The Sonics,
Black Pus,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Tremeloes,
KRS-One,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Slackers,
Aloha Tigers,
Oneida,
Technova,
The Flesh Eaters,
Dennis Brown,
E-Dancer,
Mad Mike,
Darondo,
Pantytec,
Alison Limerick,
Mary Jane Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Flipper,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Cramps,
X-Ray Spex,
Freddie Wadling,
Eden Ahbez,
Al Stewart,
The Motions,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.