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 East Timor and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Milan.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Fuzztones to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Andrew Hill,
Jacques Brel,
Unrelated Segments,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
MC5,
Make Up,
Underground Resistance,
Ultra Naté,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sugar Minott,
Porter Ricks,
Sonic Youth,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Sheep,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camberwell Now,
X-102,
Yaz,
Marine Girls,
Heaven 17,
Japan,
Parry Music,
Avey Tare,
The Modern Lovers,
La Düsseldorf,
Organ,
Depeche Mode,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Last Poets,
The Zeros,
Roger Hodgson,
Lindisfarne,
Jeff Lynne,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cymande,
Youth Brigade,
Sandy B,
Maleditus Sound,
The Residents,
X-101,
Q and Not U,
Crash Course in Science,
Ituana,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Stiv Bators,
Wire,
Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
Wolf Eyes,
Desert Stars,
The Walker Brothers,
John Foxx,
Ultravox,
Lee Hazlewood,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roxette,
Livin' Joy,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.