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 Switzerland and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Woodstock.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Arthur Verocai to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mars,
Fat Boys,
Mad Mike,
The Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ronan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rotary Connection,
The Neon Judgement,
Pantaleimon,
EPMD,
Q65,
Todd Terry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Barracudas,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lower 48,
Vladislav Delay,
Morten Harket,
Moby Grape,
The Grass Roots,
Niagra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Walker Brothers,
Roxy Music,
Delon & Dalcan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Human League,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Terry Callier,
Alton Ellis,
Amon Düül II,
kango's stein massive,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
This Heat,
Tim Buckley,
Rufus Thomas,
June Days,
The Last Poets,
Pagans,
Dennis Brown,
Maleditus Sound,
Archie Shepp,
Cybotron,
The Birthday Party,
Swell Maps,
cv313,
Deakin,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liliput,
Pussy Galore,
Negative Approach,
Minnie Riperton,
Make Up,
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.