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 United States and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Grey Daturas to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Traffic Nightmare,
Bizarre Inc.,
Agitation Free,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joyce Sims,
Avey Tare,
Aloha Tigers,
Youth Brigade,
Max Romeo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rotary Connection,
Soulsonic Force,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mark Hollis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Q and Not U,
Sonic Youth,
Rod Modell,
Godley & Creme,
Model 500,
Man Parrish,
U.S. Maple,
Altered Images,
Alice Coltrane,
Soft Cell,
Toni Rubio,
Sällskapet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sight & Sound,
Los Fastidios,
Jerry's Kids,
The Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
Visage,
The Flesh Eaters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Evens,
kango's stein massive,
The Last Poets,
The New Christs,
Motorama,
Charles Mingus,
Marvin Gaye,
Shoche,
The Fuzztones,
Junior Murvin,
La Düsseldorf,
Curtis Mayfield,
UT,
Warren Ellis,
Grauzone,
Kerrie Biddell,
Audionom,
Bill Wells,
Harmonia,
Metal Thangz,
New Order,
Albert Ayler,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.