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 Brunei and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Prince Buster to the jazz 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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Erykah Badu,
Quando Quango,
Unwound,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pere Ubu,
Camberwell Now,
JFA,
Jacques Brel,
Moebius,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Darondo,
Marine Girls,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Real Kids,
The Sound,
Marc Almond,
Ralphi Rosario,
EPMD,
Traffic Nightmare,
Slick Rick,
Joensuu 1685,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Slits,
The Techniques,
Donny Hathaway,
LL Cool J,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
A Certain Ratio,
The Music Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bootsy Collins,
Ultra Naté,
Shoche,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Henry Cow,
Laurel Aitken,
Blossom Toes,
Model 500,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Vogues,
Audionom,
Soulsonic Force,
Boredoms,
Robert Wyatt,
Deakin,
Trumans Water,
Harpers Bizarre,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Bar-Kays,
Todd Rundgren,
The Residents,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dawn Penn,
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.