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 Latvia and from Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Grandmaster Flash to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Deepchord,
Suicide,
Gang of Four,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cameo,
Black Sheep,
R.M.O.,
Pagans,
Fluxion,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Index,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Womack,
Whodini,
The Evens,
kango's stein massive,
The Martian,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nico,
Neu!,
Rotary Connection,
Bronski Beat,
Bobby Byrd,
June Days,
Half Japanese,
Derrick May,
Harmonia,
Eve St. Jones,
DNA,
A Certain Ratio,
Barbara Tucker,
Godley & Creme,
Scion,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
JFA,
Chrome,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Selecter,
Donny Hathaway,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Byron Stingily,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Roy Ayers,
Negative Approach,
The Smiths,
Ronnie Foster,
UT,
Schoolly D,
Roxy Music,
Pulsallama,
Gerry Rafferty,
Leonard Cohen,
Infiniti,
The Knickerbockers,
The Pretty Things,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sound Behaviour,
Jeff Lynne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.