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 Greece and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet 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 Faraquet to the electroclash 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pet Shop Boys,
Urselle,
David McCallum,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Black Moon,
The Doobie Brothers,
MC5,
Aural Exciters,
New Age Steppers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gichy Dan,
OOIOO,
Con Funk Shun,
Warsaw,
Donald Byrd,
Echospace,
The Saints,
Malaria!,
the Germs,
KRS-One,
CMW,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Blues Magoos,
Underground Resistance,
Soft Cell,
Qualms,
Rufus Thomas,
Darondo,
Lakeside,
Black Pus,
Neu!,
Tubeway Army,
Hoover,
Pole,
EPMD,
Bill Near,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Pop Group,
Hasil Adkins,
The Moody Blues,
The Mojo Men,
Hot Snakes,
Sonic Youth,
Barrington Levy,
June Days,
Avey Tare,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Popol Vuh,
Sound Behaviour,
The Barracudas,
Lou Christie,
The Busters,
Leonard Cohen,
Boz Scaggs,
Eve St. Jones,
Infiniti,
The Angels of Light,
Boredoms,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Skaos,
The Golliwogs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.