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 Fiji and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Andrew Hill to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
The Young Rascals,
Young Marble Giants,
Yusef Lateef,
These Immortal Souls,
Circle Jerks,
Roxette,
Sister Nancy,
Andrew Hill,
Mars,
Sound Behaviour,
The Real Kids,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Modern Lovers,
The Raincoats,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wasted Youth,
The New Christs,
David McCallum,
Bobby Byrd,
A Certain Ratio,
Alphaville,
The Toasters,
Tubeway Army,
Fat Boys,
Television,
The Sonics,
Flash Fearless,
Con Funk Shun,
Kurtis Blow,
Television Personalities,
Matthew Halsall,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
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Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Al Stewart,
Moss Icon,
Brick,
Scientists,
Aaron Thompson,
Fluxion,
Vainqueur,
The Pop Group,
ABC,
Kerri Chandler,
One Last Wish,
La Düsseldorf,
the Sonics,
Nico,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Dirtbombs,
Radio Birdman,
Agitation Free,
Simply Red,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Colin Newman,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Sheep,
JFA,
Piero Umiliani,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.