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 Slovenia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Joyce Sims to the techno 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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
Todd Rundgren,
The Five Americans,
Sight & Sound,
Ossler,
James White and The Blacks,
Prince Buster,
Gichy Dan,
The Cowsills,
Cameo,
The Birthday Party,
Terrestrial Tones,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Yellowson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Junior Murvin,
Peter & Gordon,
Henry Cow,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Donny Hathaway,
Groovy Waters,
Index,
The Electric Prunes,
In Retrospect,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Graham Central Station,
Beasts of Bourbon,
D'Angelo,
Marmalade,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Amon Düül II,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Sheep,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bobby Byrd,
Zapp,
Steve Hackett,
Davy DMX,
The Martian,
The Durutti Column,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fatback Band,
Joey Negro,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Fortunes,
Qualms,
Brand Nubian,
Idris Muhammad,
Soul Sonic Force,
Excepter,
The Evens,
The Seeds,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Moby Grape,
Reagan Youth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.