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 Togo and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Sound to the crunk 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can 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 electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
The Leaves,
Jacob Miller,
Bad Manners,
Visage,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
June of 44,
Wire,
Joyce Sims,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sarah Menescal,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Saints,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
JFA,
Hasil Adkins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Archie Shepp,
Ponytail,
Boredoms,
Franke,
The Doors,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mandrill,
Funky Four + One,
Danielle Patucci,
Glenn Branca,
The Remains,
Sixth Finger,
Lightning Bolt,
Electric Prunes,
Inner City,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Gories,
The Evens,
Guru Guru,
Outsiders,
Charles Mingus,
Deepchord,
Camouflage,
The Neon Judgement,
Roxette,
Thee Headcoats,
The Velvet Underground,
The Techniques,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wally Richardson,
Sun City Girls,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Tom Boy,
Agent Orange,
Girls At Our Best!,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kenny Larkin,
Moby Grape,
Ornette Coleman,
Delta 5,
Amazonics,
Funkadelic,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.