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 Costa Rica and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 Howard Jones to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Magma,
Sam Rivers,
Livin' Joy,
Lower 48,
cv313,
Metal Thangz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jacob Miller,
Youth Brigade,
Jandek,
Section 25,
the Normal,
The Fugs,
Severed Heads,
The Associates,
Brick,
The Moleskins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Brothers Johnson,
The Five Americans,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Evens,
Nick Fraelich,
Derrick May,
Electric Light Orchestra,
UT,
The Black Dice,
The Slits,
Tomorrow,
Howard Jones,
Monks,
Black Bananas,
Outsiders,
Wasted Youth,
Tom Boy,
Country Teasers,
The Smoke,
Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Avey Tare,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Byrd,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cheater Slicks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gap Band,
Technova,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bill Near,
Siglo XX,
Sight & Sound,
Roger Hodgson,
Kas Product,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.