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 Bangladesh and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Roger Hodgson to the jazz 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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang of Four,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Stetsasonic,
X-Ray Spex,
Funkadelic,
The Remains,
10cc,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Von Mondo,
the Slits,
The Dave Clark Five,
Qualms,
The Golliwogs,
Camberwell Now,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dave Gahan,
Roger Hodgson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
JFA,
Byron Stingily,
Marmalade,
Shuggie Otis,
Morten Harket,
PIL,
Goldenarms,
Thompson Twins,
The Beau Brummels,
F. McDonald,
Anthony Braxton,
The Young Rascals,
Porter Ricks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Supertramp,
Spandau Ballet,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Max Romeo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Barbara Tucker,
Arab on Radar,
Ronnie Foster,
Rod Modell,
The Gories,
Yusef Lateef,
Patti Smith,
Lucky Dragons,
Funky Four + One,
Black Flag,
Steve Hackett,
Dorothy Ashby,
Crispy Ambulance,
Buzzcocks,
Rekid,
Andrew Hill,
Barclay James Harvest,
Parry Music,
Judy Mowatt,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.