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 Slovenia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Paris.
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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 MDC to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bob Dylan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
Amon Düül,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David McCallum,
Tomorrow,
Cameo,
The Mojo Men,
Surgeon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Associates,
X-102,
Accadde A,
Dorothy Ashby,
Simply Red,
Mars,
Gang Starr,
Country Teasers,
Metal Thangz,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eve St. Jones,
The Gories,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Underground Resistance,
Zero Boys,
AZ,
Swell Maps,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marine Girls,
Barbara Tucker,
Jeff Lynne,
Joensuu 1685,
Lee Hazlewood,
Radiohead,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jerry's Kids,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bob Dylan,
Young Marble Giants,
Altered Images,
X-Ray Spex,
Matthew Halsall,
JFA,
The Martian,
Kaleidoscope,
Blancmange,
Anthony Braxton,
48th St. Collective,
OOIOO,
Supertramp,
Pulsallama,
A Certain Ratio,
L. Decosne,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Dead C,
Kool Moe Dee,
LL Cool J,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Cure,
The Move,
The Barracudas,
Con Funk Shun,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.