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 Canada and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Mary Jane Girls to the jazz 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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
Rod Modell,
Pantytec,
Judy Mowatt,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rufus Thomas,
Eden Ahbez,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Funky Four + One,
Organ,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sixth Finger,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Crispian St. Peters,
Marshall Jefferson,
Colin Newman,
Lakeside,
Basic Channel,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Beau Brummels,
Das Ding,
The Litter,
Ronan,
Ponytail,
Liliput,
Youth Brigade,
The Seeds,
Minor Threat,
Ralphi Rosario,
Public Image Ltd.,
Black Pus,
The Mojo Men,
The Doobie Brothers,
Graham Central Station,
Maleditus Sound,
Scan 7,
Jandek,
Sandy B,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Boz Scaggs,
Urselle,
The Young Rascals,
Camberwell Now,
Amon Düül,
Nik Kershaw,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Soft Cell,
Johnny Clarke,
Drive Like Jehu,
H. Thieme,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Magma,
Tim Buckley,
Surgeon,
Donald Byrd,
Leonard Cohen,
Massinfluence,
Average White Band,
Icehouse,
Adolescents,
Sonic Youth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.