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 Italy and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 theremin 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 Scrapy to the dance 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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Franke,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Don Cherry,
Black Sheep,
Kayak,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pagans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Clear Light,
the Normal,
Dorothy Ashby,
Howard Jones,
Tom Boy,
Chris & Cosey,
Eric Copeland,
Au Pairs,
Public Enemy,
Lakeside,
The Mummies,
Eden Ahbez,
Iggy Pop,
Rapeman,
Kas Product,
PIL,
Sugar Minott,
Jawbox,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tears for Fears,
Procol Harum,
the Germs,
Newcleus,
Gang of Four,
Goldenarms,
Chris Corsano,
The Young Rascals,
Ronan,
Rufus Thomas,
Fugazi,
The Dead C,
Alice Coltrane,
Crash Course in Science,
Yaz,
The Flesh Eaters,
Dawn Penn,
Sexual Harrassment,
Scion,
John Holt,
The Evens,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Saints,
The Barracudas,
Altered Images,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Panda Bear,
The Golliwogs,
FM Einheit,
Funkadelic,
The Offenders,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.