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 Indonesia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Graham Central Station to the dance 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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Radiohead,
Aaron Thompson,
Davy DMX,
The New Christs,
The Happenings,
Roy Ayers,
Juan Atkins,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
R.M.O.,
Barbara Tucker,
The Buckinghams,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bill Wells,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soft Machine,
The Moleskins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Alton Ellis,
Man Parrish,
T.S.O.L.,
Isaac Hayes,
Lakeside,
Whodini,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roxette,
Yellowson,
The Kinks,
The Evens,
Moby Grape,
D'Angelo,
Dave Gahan,
Faraquet,
Surgeon,
Ice-T,
The Fuzztones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gabor Szabo,
Bronski Beat,
Delon & Dalcan,
DNA,
China Crisis,
Scott Walker,
Girls At Our Best!,
Tom Boy,
Jacob Miller,
the Bar-Kays,
La Düsseldorf,
The Litter,
The Mummies,
Technova,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bad Manners,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Matthew Bourne,
Talk Talk,
Patti Smith,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.