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 Australia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe 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 Stereo Dub to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Loose Ends,
Lower 48,
Moss Icon,
Johnny Osbourne,
OOIOO,
Mo-Dettes,
Matthew Halsall,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Electric Prunes,
The Offenders,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mandrill,
The Smoke,
This Heat,
Connie Case,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Grey Daturas,
Rakim,
Das Ding,
The Slackers,
The Raincoats,
Lalann,
Goldenarms,
Black Sheep,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Crispy Ambulance,
Nils Olav,
Black Pus,
a-ha,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Unrelated Segments,
Bob Dylan,
Flipper,
Pagans,
Cluster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Cale,
Kaleidoscope,
Infiniti,
Excepter,
Rod Modell,
The Black Dice,
Minor Threat,
Animal Collective,
Marine Girls,
Wally Richardson,
The Vogues,
Avey Tare,
Nirvana,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lucky Dragons,
Massinfluence,
Silicon Teens,
Aswad,
Alphaville,
Flash Fearless,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Can,
Q and Not U,
Man Parrish,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.