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 Azerbaijan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Sao Paulo.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kayak to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Guru Guru,
The Residents,
Main Source,
Joensuu 1685,
Brothers Johnson,
Skaos,
Nils Olav,
Ornette Coleman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Albert Ayler,
The Happenings,
Matthew Halsall,
Steve Hackett,
The Evens,
Section 25,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Searchers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sound Behaviour,
Piero Umiliani,
Black Sheep,
New York Dolls,
The Victims,
Minutemen,
Ralphi Rosario,
Faraquet,
Jerry's Kids,
Schoolly D,
Graham Central Station,
Suburban Knight,
Sällskapet,
Cybotron,
The Real Kids,
Royal Trux,
Kool Moe Dee,
Soft Cell,
Fela Kuti,
Boogie Down Productions,
Roxy Music,
Metal Thangz,
Blancmange,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Make Up,
DJ Sneak,
The Fortunes,
The Cowsills,
the Slits,
Basic Channel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Barry Ungar,
Kenny Larkin,
Accadde A,
The Durutti Column,
Robert Wyatt,
Kurtis Blow,
Scott Walker,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Blackbyrds,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.