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 Albania and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Dawn Penn to the jazz 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minutemen,
Kurtis Blow,
Heaven 17,
Silicon Teens,
Procol Harum,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Saints,
The Toasters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Blackbyrds,
ABBA,
Glambeats Corp.,
The American Breed,
Aural Exciters,
Banda Bassotti,
Circle Jerks,
Soft Cell,
Soul Sonic Force,
Harmonia,
The Smiths,
Slave,
Alice Coltrane,
Nirvana,
A Certain Ratio,
Skarface,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Faust,
Swans,
The Smoke,
The Fall,
Skaos,
Beasts of Bourbon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jeff Lynne,
The Slits,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bluetip,
Arthur Verocai,
Jacques Brel,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gories,
Sonic Youth,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kayak,
Echospace,
Piero Umiliani,
The Invisible,
The Doobie Brothers,
John Lydon,
Magma,
Idris Muhammad,
Derrick Morgan,
the Normal,
John Cale,
Bizarre Inc.,
Minnie Riperton,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kaleidoscope,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.