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 Estonia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Monks to the funk 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ice-T,
Tropical Tobacco,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Monks,
Metal Thangz,
Main Source,
Dark Day,
Fluxion,
JFA,
Bizarre Inc.,
U.S. Maple,
Matthew Bourne,
X-102,
Swans,
OOIOO,
Jerry's Kids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joyce Sims,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Camouflage,
Q65,
Siglo XX,
UT,
Rekid,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kas Product,
Marvin Gaye,
Ohio Players,
Procol Harum,
Yazoo,
FM Einheit,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Swans,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Searchers,
Cal Tjader,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Leonard Cohen,
These Immortal Souls,
Sex Pistols,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Arcadia,
Trumans Water,
The Neon Judgement,
The Five Americans,
Nick Fraelich,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ralphi Rosario,
Whodini,
The Music Machine,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Liliput,
Gang Starr,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Gladiators,
Barrington Levy,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.