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 Cuba and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Pantaleimon to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Easy Going,
Unrelated Segments,
The Human League,
Eurythmics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Barry Ungar,
DNA,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
T. Rex,
The Stooges,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Das Ding,
Smog,
Infiniti,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cybotron,
Alice Coltrane,
Eden Ahbez,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Minnie Riperton,
Eve St. Jones,
Morten Harket,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Roger Hodgson,
Blake Baxter,
K-Klass,
Eric B and Rakim,
Panda Bear,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Kinks,
The Smoke,
Rosa Yemen,
Mark Hollis,
Sixth Finger,
Subhumans,
Joe Finger,
Lungfish,
Monks,
Liliput,
the Human League,
Erykah Badu,
The Durutti Column,
The Five Americans,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Anakelly,
Dave Gahan,
F. McDonald,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pagans,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Q65,
Radiohead,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Public Enemy,
The Walker Brothers,
Sun City Girls,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.