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 Brazil and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II 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?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Warsaw,
The Residents,
The Litter,
Q and Not U,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Crispian St. Peters,
Black Pus,
Shoche,
Arab on Radar,
Sällskapet,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sparks,
Byron Stingily,
Procol Harum,
Erykah Badu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Country Teasers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Michelle Simonal,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Peter and Kerry,
Cecil Taylor,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Martian,
Althea and Donna,
Funky Four + One,
Leonard Cohen,
Joy Division,
FM Einheit,
Grey Daturas,
Franke,
Technova,
Marmalade,
Inner City,
Toni Rubio,
Nick Fraelich,
The United States of America,
Can,
Maurizio,
Idris Muhammad,
Tom Boy,
Todd Rundgren,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bob Dylan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Brick,
Brand Nubian,
Yellowson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
In Retrospect,
UT,
Nirvana,
The Blues Magoos,
Aloha Tigers,
Gang Starr,
Fluxion,
Piero Umiliani,
The Saints,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.