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 Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Al Stewart to the grime 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Khruangbin,
Junior Murvin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultra Naté,
Suburban Knight,
Ultimate Spinach,
Unrelated Segments,
Average White Band,
Mark Hollis,
Al Stewart,
Deakin,
Electric Prunes,
Soft Machine,
Marshall Jefferson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Invisible,
Technova,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Skaos,
Section 25,
Jacques Brel,
Television,
Erykah Badu,
Neil Young,
Alison Limerick,
Los Fastidios,
Pulsallama,
Marine Girls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Joy Division,
Icehouse,
Crooked Eye,
Cal Tjader,
Mission of Burma,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
kango's stein massive,
Agitation Free,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
X-Ray Spex,
Bobby Byrd,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Josef K,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Masters at Work,
Yazoo,
Ludus,
Harry Pussy,
Erasure,
The Misunderstood,
John Holt,
Gang Green,
One Last Wish,
The Busters,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Joey Negro,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ohio Players,
Subhumans,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.