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 Gambia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 marimba 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 Kerri Chandler to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Essential Logic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Funky Four + One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gong,
Grandmaster Flash,
Shoche,
Infiniti,
The Durutti Column,
Nik Kershaw,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Black Moon,
Simply Red,
China Crisis,
Boredoms,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soulsonic Force,
Pole,
Y Pants,
Lungfish,
David Bowie,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Blake Baxter,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ohio Players,
Flipper,
Pylon,
Interpol,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
Trumans Water,
The United States of America,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dave Gahan,
DJ Sneak,
Stockholm Monsters,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Qualms,
Deadbeat,
Jeff Lynne,
kango's stein massive,
The Smiths,
The Music Machine,
Scrapy,
The Litter,
The Young Rascals,
Fear,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Dirtbombs,
Fela Kuti,
Mad Mike,
Chris & Cosey,
Sight & Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
Wolf Eyes,
Can,
The Evens,
Laurel Aitken,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.