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 Guinea-Bissau and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
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 rhodes 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 Delta 5 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Robert Görl,
Godley & Creme,
Freddie Wadling,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Alarm Clocks,
Nico,
CMW,
Gil Scott Heron,
MC5,
Radiohead,
Kaleidoscope,
John Cale,
Ten City,
Jerry's Kids,
Eric B and Rakim,
kango's stein massive,
Mo-Dettes,
Nas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Saints,
Saccharine Trust,
The Monks,
The Smoke,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alison Limerick,
Ohio Players,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Television Personalities,
The Names,
Niagra,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marine Girls,
The Fuzztones,
Soft Machine,
The Gladiators,
Pere Ubu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Echospace,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Grass Roots,
Metal Thangz,
Youth Brigade,
Jeff Lynne,
Crooked Eye,
Soul Sonic Force,
Unrelated Segments,
Newcleus,
The Young Rascals,
Fugazi,
Eden Ahbez,
the Germs,
Q and Not U,
Barry Ungar,
Jeru the Damaja,
Steve Hackett,
Second Layer,
Prince Buster,
The Fugs,
Massinfluence,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.