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 Columbus.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jeff Lynne to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Q65,
AZ,
Public Enemy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ossler,
Minutemen,
The Smoke,
These Immortal Souls,
Reagan Youth,
The Invisible,
Hardrive,
Lower 48,
World's Most,
Nick Fraelich,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cameo,
The Litter,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dave Gahan,
Jeff Mills,
The Motions,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Talk Talk,
David McCallum,
Little Man,
Archie Shepp,
Heaven 17,
The Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neu!,
Gerry Rafferty,
LL Cool J,
Agitation Free,
Funky Four + One,
Kenny Larkin,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
John Coltrane,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lucky Dragons,
Niagra,
Yusef Lateef,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Leaves,
Popol Vuh,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Monks,
Mo-Dettes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Stiv Bators,
DJ Sneak,
Country Teasers,
Agent Orange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donald Byrd,
Moby Grape,
David Axelrod,
Skarface,
The Fire Engines,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.