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 Norway and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Leonard Cohen to the grime 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
World's Most,
Skaos,
Marine Girls,
The Velvet Underground,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Zeros,
Infiniti,
MC5,
Tommy Roe,
Josef K,
Shuggie Otis,
Warsaw,
Second Layer,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Al Stewart,
Excepter,
Sonic Youth,
X-102,
Easy Going,
Cluster,
The Residents,
ABC,
Popol Vuh,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Vainqueur,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jimmy McGriff,
Aural Exciters,
a-ha,
Young Marble Giants,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ice-T,
Goldenarms,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Count Five,
Bang On A Can,
Bootsy Collins,
Hoover,
Amon Düül II,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Reagan Youth,
Cameo,
Dark Day,
The Vogues,
Graham Central Station,
Cymande,
Scientists,
The New Christs,
David Bowie,
Fat Boys,
Au Pairs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Frankie Knuckles,
Quadrant,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eric Copeland,
Sparks,
cv313,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang of Four,
John Foxx,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.