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 Cambodia and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Oneida to the punk 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Simply Red record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
The Electric Prunes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Youth Brigade,
the Sonics,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scratch Acid,
Model 500,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Skaos,
a-ha,
Deepchord,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Blancmange,
Roxette,
Maleditus Sound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Todd Rundgren,
Dual Sessions,
Monolake,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vainqueur,
X-101,
Easy Going,
Lakeside,
Sister Nancy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Gap Band,
Skriet,
One Last Wish,
The Blues Magoos,
Guru Guru,
Marc Almond,
New York Dolls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Interpol,
Altered Images,
Monks,
Pussy Galore,
Archie Shepp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wolf Eyes,
Peter & Gordon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Depeche Mode,
Drexciya,
Basic Channel,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Underground Resistance,
the Association,
Make Up,
Whodini,
Lalann,
Bill Wells,
The United States of America,
The Beau Brummels,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ronan,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.