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 Tunisia and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Eric Dolphy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Crispy Ambulance,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Associates,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Doors,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arcadia,
Aloha Tigers,
OOIOO,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bush Tetras,
Crash Course in Science,
Youth Brigade,
Mantronix,
U.S. Maple,
Organ,
Royal Trux,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Traffic Nightmare,
Malaria!,
Panda Bear,
Echospace,
Cal Tjader,
Vladislav Delay,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Smoke,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Skriet,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Junior Murvin,
Oblivians,
Wings,
Black Sheep,
Fatback Band,
Iggy Pop,
E-Dancer,
Unwound,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nils Olav,
Aaron Thompson,
Symarip,
Saccharine Trust,
Jawbox,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Quantec,
Tim Buckley,
Gang Starr,
Amon Düül,
Icehouse,
Roy Ayers,
Das Ding,
T. Rex,
Juan Atkins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
B.T. Express,
Drexciya,
John Foxx,
Gang of Four,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.