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 Tajikistan and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Easy Going to the rock 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
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,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
FM Einheit,
Rekid,
Lou Reed,
Public Image Ltd.,
Negative Approach,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Organ,
CMW,
Flipper,
Yaz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Leaves,
Animal Collective,
The Slackers,
A Certain Ratio,
Absolute Body Control,
Todd Terry,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mission of Burma,
Cheater Slicks,
Alison Limerick,
The Toasters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eddi Front,
The Cramps,
EPMD,
Roger Hodgson,
Adolescents,
The Martian,
Scrapy,
L. Decosne,
Harmonia,
E-Dancer,
Derrick May,
The Golliwogs,
Drexciya,
Kas Product,
The Motions,
Tubeway Army,
Sun City Girls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Quando Quango,
Visage,
Aloha Tigers,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Last Poets,
Wings,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mad Mike,
Ten City,
Deepchord,
Jeff Mills,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gladiators,
Tom Boy,
Rosa Yemen,
Cluster, Cluster, Cluster, Cluster.
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.