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 Sri Lanka and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Gichy Dan,
John Cale,
Underground Resistance,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Niagra,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Aswad,
Stereo Dub,
The Skatalites,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Archie Shepp,
Marvin Gaye,
Technova,
Andrew Hill,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DJ Style,
Scott Walker,
Dawn Penn,
Sällskapet,
Charles Mingus,
Sugar Minott,
Jimmy McGriff,
Negative Approach,
LL Cool J,
Pylon,
Rotary Connection,
Slick Rick,
Simply Red,
The Beau Brummels,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fugazi,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Television Personalities,
Sixth Finger,
Anthony Braxton,
B.T. Express,
Tom Boy,
David Axelrod,
Faust,
Bobby Hutcherson,
a-ha,
Jeru the Damaja,
Camouflage,
Leonard Cohen,
Cal Tjader,
Lalo Schifrin,
Vainqueur,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Groovy Waters,
Vladislav Delay,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Skriet,
Byron Stingily,
June Days,
Spoonie Gee,
Peter and Kerry,
Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow.
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.