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 Andorra and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Tears for Fears to the dance 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Leaves,
Joyce Sims,
The Zeros,
Mars,
Lyres,
New York Dolls,
Arab on Radar,
Theoretical Girls,
The Motions,
Minny Pops,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Fugs,
Hardrive,
Gichy Dan,
Radiopuhelimet,
Oneida,
Connie Case,
Pulsallama,
Cal Tjader,
Bob Dylan,
Radiohead,
Ludus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Main Source,
Rotary Connection,
Rekid,
The Pretty Things,
Black Flag,
UT,
Saccharine Trust,
Ice-T,
The Victims,
The J.B.'s,
Eric B and Rakim,
Zapp,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Last Poets,
Unrelated Segments,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rod Modell,
Flash Fearless,
June Days,
The Human League,
The Cure,
MDC,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lalo Schifrin,
Leonard Cohen,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nik Kershaw,
The Kinks,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pet Shop Boys,
Interpol,
The Selecter,
Dennis Brown,
Tom Boy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marc Almond,
Erykah Badu,
Yusef Lateef,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.