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 St Lucia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Urselle to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
Camberwell Now,
Anakelly,
Eric Copeland,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tomorrow,
Procol Harum,
Hot Snakes,
Fluxion,
Second Layer,
The Young Rascals,
Gong,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rapeman,
Unwound,
Young Marble Giants,
Rufus Thomas,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Divine Comedy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
10cc,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Pretty Things,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mantronix,
Minnie Riperton,
Joyce Sims,
The Gun Club,
Scientists,
Minor Threat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Slits,
One Last Wish,
Porter Ricks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Cramps,
Alton Ellis,
The Remains,
The Music Machine,
The Searchers,
Pere Ubu,
Gil Scott Heron,
Reagan Youth,
Jerry's Kids,
X-101,
Von Mondo,
Rotary Connection,
The Leaves,
Soul II Soul,
B.T. Express,
Grauzone,
Rosa Yemen,
Sister Nancy,
Amon Düül II,
Lou Christie,
Maurizio,
Pole,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joensuu 1685,
Lindisfarne,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.