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 Mongolia and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Infiniti to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Khruangbin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eric B and Rakim,
The United States of America,
48th St. Collective,
Connie Case,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Patti Smith,
Faraquet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Leaves,
Tommy Roe,
The Five Americans,
The Sonics,
Talk Talk,
The Evens,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Yellowson,
Skarface,
The Standells,
Y Pants,
Colin Newman,
Scan 7,
Sister Nancy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yusef Lateef,
JFA,
Technova,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joe Finger,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kenny Larkin,
The Human League,
Gang Green,
Nas,
Deadbeat,
Morten Harket,
The Seeds,
James White and The Blacks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eric Dolphy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The New Christs,
Hasil Adkins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Fugs,
Piero Umiliani,
Fluxion,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nick Fraelich,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mad Mike,
Arab on Radar,
Wire,
The Knickerbockers,
Byron Stingily,
David Axelrod,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.