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 Tonga and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Cymande 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Rekid,
The Count Five,
Rotary Connection,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minny Pops,
Surgeon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Aloha Tigers,
Derrick Morgan,
The Names,
The Knickerbockers,
Television,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
World's Most,
Q and Not U,
Pussy Galore,
Ludus,
In Retrospect,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Can,
Lou Christie,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Toasters,
MDC,
Dual Sessions,
Al Stewart,
Severed Heads,
Mantronix,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Cramps,
Khruangbin,
Delon & Dalcan,
Max Romeo,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Altered Images,
Robert Görl,
Cluster,
The Busters,
Joyce Sims,
Don Cherry,
Lungfish,
ABC,
The Move,
Clear Light,
KRS-One,
Althea and Donna,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Moss Icon,
the Normal,
Eric Dolphy,
The Beau Brummels,
Jerry's Kids,
Amon Düül II,
Delta 5,
OOIOO,
The Dave Clark Five,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.