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 Taiwan and from Stockholm.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 arpeggiator 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 Model 500 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Magma,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Motions,
T. Rex,
Eddi Front,
Rufus Thomas,
The Gladiators,
Ponytail,
Man Eating Sloth,
Skriet,
Flipper,
Schoolly D,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Moby Grape,
Black Moon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Vainqueur,
UT,
Unrelated Segments,
Motorama,
Mark Hollis,
Babytalk,
The Beau Brummels,
Wolf Eyes,
Yusef Lateef,
Khruangbin,
The Count Five,
The Kinks,
New Order,
Harpers Bizarre,
Popol Vuh,
Das Ding,
Saccharine Trust,
Carl Craig,
Funkadelic,
Ten City,
L. Decosne,
Kaleidoscope,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joey Negro,
Tom Boy,
Swell Maps,
Ohio Players,
One Last Wish,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fortunes,
Bill Near,
Duran Duran,
The Modern Lovers,
Spoonie Gee,
Leonard Cohen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
A Certain Ratio,
David Axelrod,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ronan,
The Happenings,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Royal Trux,
Grey Daturas,
The Cure,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.