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 Colombia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 A Flock of Seagulls to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Gil Scott Heron,
Man Parrish,
The Martian,
New Order,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Human League,
Minnie Riperton,
The Index,
Flash Fearless,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Mummies,
Simply Red,
Fat Boys,
Joyce Sims,
The Techniques,
Pylon,
Jerry's Kids,
Absolute Body Control,
Yusef Lateef,
Wings,
Toni Rubio,
Ten City,
Ponytail,
The Associates,
Lee Hazlewood,
Erasure,
Negative Approach,
Kas Product,
Jeru the Damaja,
EPMD,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Searchers,
Avey Tare,
Blake Baxter,
Nirvana,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jandek,
Soft Cell,
Aural Exciters,
Talk Talk,
Ohio Players,
Fluxion,
Monks,
Cluster,
Jacob Miller,
Chris Corsano,
Gastr Del Sol,
One Last Wish,
The Golliwogs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gang Gang Dance,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rhythm & Sound,
Anakelly,
Kurtis Blow,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Black Pus,
Buzzcocks,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.