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 Estonia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Doors to the electroclash 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 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 rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Black Dice,
The Smiths,
Ponytail,
Pagans,
The Cure,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Busters,
Bad Manners,
Marine Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
48th St. Collective,
The Cramps,
Television,
Pulsallama,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Velvet Underground,
Outsiders,
Dave Gahan,
Marc Almond,
Robert Görl,
Pylon,
Al Stewart,
Man Eating Sloth,
Susan Cadogan,
Adolescents,
Skriet,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Christie,
One Last Wish,
Scion,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ronan,
Scratch Acid,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Funky Four + One,
Fear,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Joensuu 1685,
Unrelated Segments,
The Five Americans,
Yellowson,
Con Funk Shun,
The Offenders,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hashim,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantaleimon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jacques Brel,
The Barracudas,
The Gun Club,
The Pretty Things,
Procol Harum,
Flipper,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.