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 France and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Peter & Gordon to the rock 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 The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang on a Can All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Altered Images,
Freddie Wadling,
Stetsasonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Zero Boys,
The Vogues,
Sparks,
Khruangbin,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Minny Pops,
Swans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lalann,
The Slits,
Sarah Menescal,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lucky Dragons,
10cc,
Monolake,
Jeff Lynne,
48th St. Collective,
Schoolly D,
Scratch Acid,
T.S.O.L.,
World's Most,
Matthew Halsall,
Duran Duran,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pole,
The Tremeloes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bob Dylan,
Von Mondo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ornette Coleman,
Siglo XX,
The Saints,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kevin Saunderson,
Icehouse,
Cybotron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fuzztones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
CMW,
Lungfish,
The Modern Lovers,
Harmonia,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Wake,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Niagra,
the Slits,
The Motions,
Nico,
The Selecter,
Jacob Miller,
Pylon,
Sound Behaviour,
OOIOO,
the Bar-Kays,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.