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 Swaziland and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Marine Girls to the jazz 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
H. Thieme,
Mr. Review,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Television Personalities,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Neil Young,
The Flesh Eaters,
Howard Jones,
The American Breed,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nick Fraelich,
Crash Course in Science,
Yusef Lateef,
Sparks,
The Walker Brothers,
Nils Olav,
Japan,
The Skatalites,
Derrick May,
Buzzcocks,
Suicide,
Kurtis Blow,
Barclay James Harvest,
Barry Ungar,
The Gories,
Boz Scaggs,
Jandek,
Flash Fearless,
The Black Dice,
The Trojans,
The Leaves,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Silicon Teens,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Echospace,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Radio Birdman,
Clear Light,
These Immortal Souls,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
B.T. Express,
World's Most,
Parry Music,
AZ,
The Residents,
Man Parrish,
Fear,
Aloha Tigers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Aswad,
Cymande,
Joe Finger,
Gerry Rafferty,
Chris Corsano,
Y Pants,
Henry Cow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Gun Club,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Smog,
Wings,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.