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 Malawi and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Copenhagen.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pylon to the disco 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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Amon Düül II,
Section 25,
The Pretty Things,
Black Bananas,
The Move,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Young Rascals,
Hasil Adkins,
Tomorrow,
The Gap Band,
Barrington Levy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Buzzcocks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jerry's Kids,
Quadrant,
Adolescents,
Desert Stars,
Marine Girls,
cv313,
Graham Central Station,
Ten City,
Sonic Youth,
Gang of Four,
Organ,
The Five Americans,
the Germs,
John Foxx,
The Techniques,
Ultra Naté,
Bobby Byrd,
The Dead C,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DNA,
Liliput,
Stockholm Monsters,
Smog,
A Certain Ratio,
Minnie Riperton,
The Doors,
The Music Machine,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Radiohead,
Rod Modell,
Kool Moe Dee,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalann,
Dennis Brown,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bang On A Can,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rekid,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Max Romeo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Easy Going,
Robert Hood,
DJ Sneak,
Absolute Body Control,
ABBA,
Wolf Eyes,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.