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 Chad and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 The Names to the grunge 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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Silicon Teens,
The Kinks,
The Durutti Column,
EPMD,
June Days,
Goldenarms,
The Grass Roots,
Avey Tare,
Organ,
Faust,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Godley & Creme,
Supertramp,
Siglo XX,
June of 44,
Grauzone,
Agitation Free,
Alphaville,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pylon,
The Busters,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Janne Schatter,
Tears for Fears,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lucky Dragons,
MDC,
MC5,
Motorama,
Sonic Youth,
Average White Band,
Yazoo,
Whodini,
Rites of Spring,
Bauhaus,
Suburban Knight,
Prince Buster,
Visage,
Hoover,
Metal Thangz,
Yellowson,
Scientists,
Marcia Griffiths,
Howard Jones,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Dark Day,
The Associates,
Derrick Morgan,
John Holt,
The Slits,
Pulsallama,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Massinfluence,
Kaleidoscope,
Subhumans,
Brand Nubian,
Adolescents,
This Heat,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Doors,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.