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 Georgia and from Madrid.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer 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 Steve Hackett to the grime 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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ohio Players,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jacob Miller,
Brass Construction,
The Raincoats,
Susan Cadogan,
Howard Jones,
Alton Ellis,
The Detroit Cobras,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang of Four,
Sugar Minott,
Saccharine Trust,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
LL Cool J,
MDC,
Althea and Donna,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Subhumans,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marmalade,
Nick Fraelich,
Amon Düül,
Khruangbin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Quantec,
Essential Logic,
The Fortunes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Outsiders,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kaleidoscope,
Erasure,
Scrapy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Josef K,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
AZ,
Wings,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Albert Ayler,
H. Thieme,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Thompson Twins,
Deepchord,
The Modern Lovers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sällskapet,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Sonics,
Ice-T,
the Swans,
E-Dancer,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Soft Cell,
Youth Brigade,
Hoover,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Wally Richardson,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.