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 Malaysia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro 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 Roxy Music to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Selecter,
Cymande,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Goldenarms,
The Buckinghams,
Monks,
Second Layer,
The Gories,
E-Dancer,
Icehouse,
Robert Wyatt,
Aural Exciters,
Cybotron,
Ten City,
Joe Smooth,
The Wake,
Fela Kuti,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Crispy Ambulance,
Quadrant,
Piero Umiliani,
Interpol,
Derrick Morgan,
Mandrill,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Angels of Light,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Amon Düül II,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Y Pants,
Soft Machine,
Suburban Knight,
Angry Samoans,
Roy Ayers,
Model 500,
Bauhaus,
The Toasters,
Agitation Free,
The Mummies,
Kas Product,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Last Poets,
Absolute Body Control,
the Human League,
The Standells,
The Moody Blues,
Erykah Badu,
David Axelrod,
Kurtis Blow,
Camouflage,
Theoretical Girls,
the Slits,
Newcleus,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sarah Menescal,
Underground Resistance,
The Fall,
Eddi Front,
Kerrie Biddell,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.