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 Madagascar and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ossler to the punk 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Japan,
Scratch Acid,
One Last Wish,
The Music Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bush Tetras,
Rapeman,
Gerry Rafferty,
Camberwell Now,
Dead Boys,
Al Stewart,
John Cale,
Ohio Players,
Scrapy,
Tropical Tobacco,
Judy Mowatt,
Wire,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Slits,
Soft Machine,
Kerrie Biddell,
Desert Stars,
Rufus Thomas,
Television,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Symarip,
Ronan,
Althea and Donna,
The Monochrome Set,
Jandek,
John Coltrane,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Howard Jones,
Roxy Music,
Chrome,
Cameo,
The Index,
Danielle Patucci,
Tres Demented,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Hoover,
Con Funk Shun,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Pretty Things,
Dawn Penn,
The Gap Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Alarm Clocks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
These Immortal Souls,
Stereo Dub,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Soulsonic Force,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Joyce Sims,
Depeche Mode,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.