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 Malaysia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Desert Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
MC5,
Simply Red,
Television Personalities,
This Heat,
Rapeman,
Gregory Isaacs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dennis Brown,
The Real Kids,
Rekid,
Jacques Brel,
Mr. Review,
Mantronix,
Schoolly D,
Brass Construction,
Soft Cell,
X-Ray Spex,
Blake Baxter,
Audionom,
Juan Atkins,
Nik Kershaw,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Visage,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mark Hollis,
The Young Rascals,
Moby Grape,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nico,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lakeside,
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
New Age Steppers,
Vainqueur,
Bobby Byrd,
Hasil Adkins,
Leonard Cohen,
Yusef Lateef,
Ronnie Foster,
Wire,
Fela Kuti,
The Smiths,
The Blackbyrds,
Joyce Sims,
Young Marble Giants,
Gastr Del Sol,
Alphaville,
Erasure,
The Angels of Light,
Franke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Starr,
Big Daddy Kane,
MDC,
The Music Machine,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pole,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.