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 Micronesia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Sam Rivers to the electroclash 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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
The Trojans,
Michelle Simonal,
Youth Brigade,
Trumans Water,
Chris Corsano,
The Monks,
Crime,
Drive Like Jehu,
Skaos,
Marvin Gaye,
The United States of America,
Eden Ahbez,
Bad Manners,
Robert Görl,
Q and Not U,
Funky Four + One,
Lakeside,
Laurel Aitken,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crash Course in Science,
Derrick May,
Chrome,
The Pretty Things,
Ultravox,
Clear Light,
Gang Green,
The Happenings,
Barbara Tucker,
Essential Logic,
Marmalade,
the Sonics,
Sixth Finger,
Black Bananas,
Sam Rivers,
Altered Images,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Tommy Roe,
Rufus Thomas,
a-ha,
Stockholm Monsters,
Judy Mowatt,
The Shadows of Knight,
Graham Central Station,
The Techniques,
Negative Approach,
The Gories,
Black Flag,
The Music Machine,
Ornette Coleman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Metal Thangz,
Sandy B,
KRS-One,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joe Smooth,
Letta Mbulu,
Nirvana,
Moss Icon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bluetip,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.