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 Russia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe 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 Unrelated Segments to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Cal Tjader,
Roxy Music,
Newcleus,
The Walker Brothers,
Dual Sessions,
Alton Ellis,
The Velvet Underground,
John Cale,
Electric Prunes,
Godley & Creme,
The Last Poets,
Kayak,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Swell Maps,
Au Pairs,
Ituana,
John Coltrane,
Silicon Teens,
ABC,
The Vogues,
Eric Dolphy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Subhumans,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gerry Rafferty,
These Immortal Souls,
Slave,
Soul II Soul,
Guru Guru,
Pantaleimon,
The Gun Club,
Cameo,
Flipper,
The Techniques,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Surgeon,
Bronski Beat,
Circle Jerks,
Steve Hackett,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Television Personalities,
The Grass Roots,
Skaos,
Sound Behaviour,
Mo-Dettes,
Fad Gadget,
Camberwell Now,
Scion,
Pierre Henry,
Magazine,
MC5,
Dennis Brown,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marshall Jefferson,
June Days,
cv313,
Pharoah Sanders,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.