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 Paraguay and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron 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 DNA to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mr. Review,
Clear Light,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cheater Slicks,
Nirvana,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Banda Bassotti,
Mantronix,
Amon Düül II,
Rakim,
Niagra,
Interpol,
Thompson Twins,
Japan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Birthday Party,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scientists,
Duran Duran,
The Music Machine,
Darondo,
The Searchers,
World's Most,
Marc Almond,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Anthony Braxton,
Symarip,
Neu!,
Lakeside,
Boz Scaggs,
Soft Cell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Derrick Morgan,
The Velvet Underground,
The Martian,
Tomorrow,
Marine Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Urselle,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Boredoms,
Traffic Nightmare,
cv313,
Donny Hathaway,
Sarah Menescal,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Grass Roots,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Invisible,
Jacob Miller,
Gerry Rafferty,
Patti Smith,
Pantaleimon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
EPMD,
The Zeros,
Soulsonic Force,
Gang Green,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.