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 Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Livin' Joy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Ohio Players,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Walker Brothers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Neu!,
The United States of America,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Masters at Work,
Bang On A Can,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Reagan Youth,
The Kinks,
The Black Dice,
The Dead C,
Q and Not U,
Aloha Tigers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Stetsasonic,
Roy Ayers,
Junior Murvin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Porter Ricks,
Cecil Taylor,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
JFA,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Moby Grape,
DJ Sneak,
LL Cool J,
Pole,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Happenings,
Avey Tare,
James White and The Blacks,
Agent Orange,
K-Klass,
The Standells,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Swans,
The Flesh Eaters,
Metal Thangz,
The Fire Engines,
CMW,
Harmonia,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pussy Galore,
Malaria!,
EPMD,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Sound,
The Remains,
UT,
Electric Prunes,
Sugar Minott,
F. McDonald,
Marshall Jefferson,
New Age Steppers,
Ken Boothe,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.