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 Nepal and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar 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 Cecil Taylor to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
R.M.O.,
The J.B.'s,
Scott Walker,
Kayak,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Swans,
Rod Modell,
Minor Threat,
Derrick May,
Steve Hackett,
Roxette,
Joe Finger,
Colin Newman,
Aloha Tigers,
Hardrive,
Faraquet,
Max Romeo,
Banda Bassotti,
Marvin Gaye,
Theoretical Girls,
The Count Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kaleidoscope,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobby Byrd,
Suburban Knight,
Severed Heads,
Unrelated Segments,
Deepchord,
Wire,
Sarah Menescal,
Tommy Roe,
Matthew Halsall,
Loose Ends,
Gang Gang Dance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Tremeloes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ossler,
The Moody Blues,
Metal Thangz,
Neu!,
Zapp,
Jeff Lynne,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Clear Light,
Oblivians,
In Retrospect,
Radio Birdman,
The Young Rascals,
Supertramp,
Howard Jones,
Yellowson,
Lakeside,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gichy Dan,
Isaac Hayes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Offenders,
The United States of America,
Lalo Schifrin,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.