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 Rwanda and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Edmonton.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bobbi Humphrey to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alison Limerick,
Minor Threat,
The Mummies,
Bill Near,
The Moleskins,
Peter and Kerry,
Loose Ends,
The Wake,
Symarip,
Cymande,
Mary Jane Girls,
Franke,
Scratch Acid,
Bronski Beat,
DNA,
Sixth Finger,
Todd Terry,
Los Fastidios,
Grandmaster Flash,
Janne Schatter,
Au Pairs,
The Invisible,
Sonny Sharrock,
a-ha,
The Music Machine,
One Last Wish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Harpers Bizarre,
Royal Trux,
John Cale,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Whodini,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Letta Mbulu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Doors,
Marine Girls,
New York Dolls,
Amon Düül,
ABBA,
PIL,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ossler,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Colin Newman,
Gang Green,
Kool Moe Dee,
Davy DMX,
Trumans Water,
Soulsonic Force,
K-Klass,
Bang On A Can,
Moby Grape,
Roxette,
Maurizio,
Wasted Youth,
ABC,
Q and Not U,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.