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 Pakistan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator 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 Matthew Halsall to the disco 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Underground Resistance,
The Move,
Gang of Four,
Eric Copeland,
The J.B.'s,
Rufus Thomas,
Stereo Dub,
Popol Vuh,
Wally Richardson,
Sixth Finger,
Black Moon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Real Kids,
Sister Nancy,
Brass Construction,
Saccharine Trust,
The Wake,
Fatback Band,
Glenn Branca,
John Lydon,
Altered Images,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
DJ Sneak,
David McCallum,
The Fuzztones,
Crime,
Panda Bear,
Gerry Rafferty,
Letta Mbulu,
Nico,
Slick Rick,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jacques Brel,
Rod Modell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Quando Quango,
Parry Music,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Agitation Free,
Chris & Cosey,
Camberwell Now,
Y Pants,
The Pretty Things,
Marcia Griffiths,
Clear Light,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Infiniti,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Supertramp,
Bill Wells,
The Monks,
Quantec,
Ronan,
Archie Shepp,
Accadde A,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bad Manners,
Interpol,
Second Layer,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.