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 Grenada and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Toasters to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Underground Resistance,
Moss Icon,
John Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Smog,
Gong,
Whodini,
Absolute Body Control,
World's Most,
The Music Machine,
Pierre Henry,
The Monochrome Set,
Intrusion,
Pagans,
Agent Orange,
Fat Boys,
June Days,
Q65,
Pylon,
Japan,
Danielle Patucci,
Morten Harket,
The Litter,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Human League,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Deepchord,
Excepter,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fela Kuti,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Grauzone,
Negative Approach,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wally Richardson,
Throbbing Gristle,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lindisfarne,
Moby Grape,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Grass Roots,
The J.B.'s,
The Stooges,
K-Klass,
Aural Exciters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Procol Harum,
Section 25,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Letta Mbulu,
Godley & Creme,
ABBA,
Erykah Badu,
Ultra Naté,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.