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 Singapore and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Unrelated Segments to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
The Zeros,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Buzzcocks,
Moss Icon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ultra Naté,
Country Teasers,
Gabor Szabo,
Grauzone,
The Beau Brummels,
Avey Tare,
Robert Hood,
Simply Red,
The Fire Engines,
Bad Manners,
Vainqueur,
Donald Byrd,
Procol Harum,
Dave Gahan,
Sällskapet,
Angry Samoans,
Barbara Tucker,
The Gladiators,
James White and The Blacks,
The Neon Judgement,
Skaos,
The Modern Lovers,
Gong,
Laurel Aitken,
Popol Vuh,
Circle Jerks,
The Blues Magoos,
The Litter,
Gang of Four,
Girls At Our Best!,
Derrick Morgan,
Joy Division,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Neil Young,
Scan 7,
Leonard Cohen,
The Names,
Talk Talk,
Shuggie Otis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
These Immortal Souls,
Smog,
Marvin Gaye,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Byron Stingily,
Cheater Slicks,
Arthur Verocai,
The American Breed,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Stiv Bators,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Max Romeo,
Eric Dolphy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stereo Dub,
R.M.O.,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.