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 India and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 It's A Beautiful Day to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Yusef Lateef,
Skarface,
Ohio Players,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Techniques,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dead Boys,
Y Pants,
PIL,
David Bowie,
The J.B.'s,
Nils Olav,
CMW,
Maurizio,
The Alarm Clocks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Procol Harum,
Guru Guru,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Hasil Adkins,
Sparks,
Index,
Joe Smooth,
Sugar Minott,
Sister Nancy,
Minny Pops,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eric Copeland,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Chrome,
Animal Collective,
The Detroit Cobras,
James White and The Blacks,
MDC,
Second Layer,
John Lydon,
Tubeway Army,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
UT,
Circle Jerks,
New Order,
Barclay James Harvest,
Cymande,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scratch Acid,
Lou Christie,
Connie Case,
Hardrive,
Model 500,
Tropical Tobacco,
Yellowson,
the Germs,
Groovy Waters,
Wolf Eyes,
The Invisible,
Kerrie Biddell,
OOIOO,
AZ,
Ornette Coleman,
Magazine,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.