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 Nauru and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the organ 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 Eurythmics 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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
the Human League,
The Dave Clark Five,
Guru Guru,
Eden Ahbez,
T.S.O.L.,
The Golliwogs,
Marvin Gaye,
This Heat,
cv313,
Freddie Wadling,
Yazoo,
Television Personalities,
Icehouse,
DNA,
Nas,
The Zeros,
The Count Five,
Lou Reed,
The Cramps,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fluxion,
Amon Düül II,
Pantytec,
The Mojo Men,
Dennis Brown,
Groovy Waters,
Sight & Sound,
China Crisis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Adolescents,
Los Fastidios,
Wolf Eyes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Eurythmics,
Hasil Adkins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bauhaus,
Max Romeo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pere Ubu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Foxx,
Stereo Dub,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Fire Engines,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Sheep,
The Fortunes,
Jeff Lynne,
Judy Mowatt,
LL Cool J,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Five Americans,
Ultravox,
Roxy Music,
Royal Trux,
Duran Duran,
Funkadelic,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.