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 Brazil and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe 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 Cecil Taylor to the electroclash 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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Eurythmics,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Normal,
Alton Ellis,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Monochrome Set,
Outsiders,
Guru Guru,
The Barracudas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ralphi Rosario,
E-Dancer,
Tomorrow,
Ultravox,
Juan Atkins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lalo Schifrin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Smog,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Faust,
Jandek,
K-Klass,
KRS-One,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Modern Lovers,
Malaria!,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Quantec,
The American Breed,
Roy Ayers,
Roger Hodgson,
Minutemen,
Janne Schatter,
the Sonics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Symarip,
Television,
The Star Department,
Parry Music,
Camberwell Now,
Infiniti,
Black Moon,
Kenny Larkin,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Idris Muhammad,
Tom Boy,
Cal Tjader,
The Walker Brothers,
Bob Dylan,
Morten Harket,
Depeche Mode,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Pretty Things,
cv313,
Lalann,
Alphaville,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Peter & Gordon,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.