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 Cyprus and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Bill Wells to the punk 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
ABC,
Swell Maps,
The Black Dice,
The Knickerbockers,
Young Marble Giants,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mary Jane Girls,
Stiv Bators,
Vladislav Delay,
LL Cool J,
Judy Mowatt,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Flash Fearless,
Fat Boys,
The Invisible,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pere Ubu,
the Germs,
Deadbeat,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Unrelated Segments,
Boogie Down Productions,
Liliput,
The Associates,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lindisfarne,
Ken Boothe,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Robert Görl,
the Swans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Stetsasonic,
Blake Baxter,
The Flesh Eaters,
X-101,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gichy Dan,
Aural Exciters,
Moss Icon,
Colin Newman,
Soulsonic Force,
Faust,
Country Teasers,
The Moody Blues,
DNA,
kango's stein massive,
Marine Girls,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gerry Rafferty,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Derrick Morgan,
X-Ray Spex,
Wire,
Ponytail,
Delta 5,
Ituana,
Brick,
Todd Rundgren,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.