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 Kuwait and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Nils Olav to the disco 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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Radiohead,
Sister Nancy,
Zapp,
Fat Boys,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Blossom Toes,
Ultra Naté,
Delon & Dalcan,
Aswad,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Theoretical Girls,
Man Parrish,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Aaron Thompson,
Royal Trux,
Roxette,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bluetip,
Animal Collective,
Leonard Cohen,
Arthur Verocai,
Gichy Dan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sandy B,
Faust,
Crispian St. Peters,
Connie Case,
Piero Umiliani,
The Modern Lovers,
LL Cool J,
Terry Callier,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kas Product,
Loose Ends,
Harmonia,
Judy Mowatt,
Massinfluence,
Fluxion,
The Pretty Things,
The Fuzztones,
EPMD,
Hasil Adkins,
Scion,
Lower 48,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rotary Connection,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Icehouse,
The Angels of Light,
David Axelrod,
Neu!,
The Associates,
World's Most,
Liliput,
the Bar-Kays,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Martian,
H. Thieme,
Porter Ricks,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.