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 Angola and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Black Bananas to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Misunderstood,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alphaville,
The Smoke,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Saints,
Ken Boothe,
The Count Five,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bad Manners,
Tears for Fears,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marine Girls,
Radiohead,
Pere Ubu,
Fluxion,
Eden Ahbez,
Gang Green,
Slick Rick,
Youth Brigade,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
U.S. Maple,
Bob Dylan,
Harmonia,
The Index,
Erykah Badu,
MDC,
Grandmaster Flash,
Roxy Music,
ABBA,
Roger Hodgson,
Moby Grape,
Niagra,
The Wake,
Sex Pistols,
Kaleidoscope,
Avey Tare,
Prince Buster,
Fatback Band,
DNA,
Joe Smooth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Barry Ungar,
Lightning Bolt,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Gladiators,
Eli Mardock,
Nick Fraelich,
The Offenders,
Slave,
Roxette,
Duran Duran,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Agitation Free,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wolf Eyes,
Shuggie Otis,
Johnny Osbourne,
David Axelrod,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.