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 Netherlands and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Winnipeg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes 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 La Düsseldorf to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Agitation Free,
Man Parrish,
Inner City,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Suburban Knight,
MDC,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Peter and Kerry,
Brick,
Niagra,
Hasil Adkins,
10cc,
Fluxion,
Ultravox,
Skarface,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Litter,
Urselle,
Cluster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Henry Cow,
Stetsasonic,
Supertramp,
Sonny Sharrock,
Thompson Twins,
The Buckinghams,
Sixth Finger,
June Days,
Schoolly D,
The Count Five,
Ludus,
Symarip,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Invisible,
The Monochrome Set,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jerry's Kids,
Marmalade,
Liliput,
Underground Resistance,
Brass Construction,
Ornette Coleman,
Graham Central Station,
The Black Dice,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sparks,
The Electric Prunes,
The Gories,
Leonard Cohen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ossler,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Janne Schatter,
CMW,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.