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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Babytalk to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deadbeat 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dual Sessions,
Agitation Free,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Reuben Wilson,
A Certain Ratio,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The United States of America,
Josef K,
Morten Harket,
Quadrant,
Junior Murvin,
Eli Mardock,
James White and The Blacks,
Shoche,
Neu!,
Jesper Dahlback,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gang Green,
Royal Trux,
One Last Wish,
Jimmy McGriff,
China Crisis,
Gerry Rafferty,
Infiniti,
the Association,
Bill Near,
The Techniques,
Jawbox,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Minny Pops,
Scratch Acid,
Kas Product,
Pole,
Magma,
Moebius,
Camouflage,
Alton Ellis,
Lalann,
The Smiths,
World's Most,
Toni Rubio,
The Evens,
DNA,
Niagra,
X-Ray Spex,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Slits,
H. Thieme,
Pagans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barbara Tucker,
Fat Boys,
Byron Stingily,
Severed Heads,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
LL Cool J,
Jeff Mills,
Pierre Henry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.