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 Mexico and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Roger Hodgson to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
New Age Steppers,
Donny Hathaway,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DJ Style,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Whodini,
The Young Rascals,
Spoonie Gee,
Idris Muhammad,
Alton Ellis,
The Black Dice,
June of 44,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joe Smooth,
David Bowie,
The Moleskins,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pole,
Junior Murvin,
Hot Snakes,
Aaron Thompson,
the Slits,
Ultravox,
Bootsy Collins,
Kurtis Blow,
8 Eyed Spy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mr. Review,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fire Engines,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Human League,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brass Construction,
Altered Images,
Scion,
AZ,
cv313,
Nick Fraelich,
Neil Young,
X-101,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Sonics,
Dark Day,
Black Sheep,
Supertramp,
These Immortal Souls,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scan 7,
Scratch Acid,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sonic Youth,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.