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 Ukraine and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 chamberlin 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Coltrane,
The Invisible,
Marvin Gaye,
Nico,
Cheater Slicks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minor Threat,
Nils Olav,
Accadde A,
Goldenarms,
Todd Rundgren,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Spoonie Gee,
Jimmy McGriff,
Man Eating Sloth,
Aaron Thompson,
Niagra,
Tears for Fears,
Sarah Menescal,
Black Sheep,
Sex Pistols,
The Cowsills,
Stiv Bators,
Oneida,
Soulsonic Force,
Slave,
Bluetip,
Idris Muhammad,
Scan 7,
Stereo Dub,
Barclay James Harvest,
LL Cool J,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Brass Construction,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fugazi,
Lou Reed,
June Days,
Rufus Thomas,
Robert Wyatt,
Mantronix,
Sister Nancy,
The Stooges,
The Slackers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pantaleimon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Chrome,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eddi Front,
Ronan,
Massinfluence,
Sun Ra,
Fat Boys,
Tim Buckley,
Bootsy Collins,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Seeds,
John Cale,
Das Ding,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.