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 Greece and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 The Index 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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ohio Players,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ornette Coleman,
L. Decosne,
Joe Smooth,
Monks,
The Walker Brothers,
Khruangbin,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Real Kids,
Supertramp,
Ronan,
Hasil Adkins,
Negative Approach,
Cabaret Voltaire,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bobby Byrd,
The Leaves,
Reagan Youth,
The Dead C,
D'Angelo,
The Pretty Things,
Con Funk Shun,
Letta Mbulu,
Silicon Teens,
The Beau Brummels,
Aloha Tigers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Sonics,
Massinfluence,
Kool Moe Dee,
Avey Tare,
The Invisible,
Moby Grape,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Wally Richardson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pulsallama,
Nik Kershaw,
Mantronix,
Second Layer,
Leonard Cohen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Laurel Aitken,
Anthony Braxton,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sonic Youth,
The New Christs,
Brand Nubian,
Underground Resistance,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sixth Finger,
Rites of Spring,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Arthur Verocai,
Bronski Beat,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.