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 Uganda and from Johannesburg.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Theoretical Girls 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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Fatback Band,
Cybotron,
Aural Exciters,
Lyres,
Ultimate Spinach,
Terry Callier,
Lower 48,
The Slackers,
Stereo Dub,
Con Funk Shun,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fear,
UT,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Barbara Tucker,
Tom Boy,
Moebius,
Jacob Miller,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Grass Roots,
Popol Vuh,
Bootsy Collins,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Blues Magoos,
June Days,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
David Axelrod,
Simply Red,
Lalann,
Gabor Szabo,
Anakelly,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Young Rascals,
The Fire Engines,
Reagan Youth,
OOIOO,
Sonic Youth,
The Gun Club,
Bobby Byrd,
ABC,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Angry Samoans,
Section 25,
Television,
Black Pus,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fortunes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Marc Almond,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pagans,
Rakim,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ludus,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.