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 Ivory Coast and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Derrick Morgan to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt 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 oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway 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?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
John Foxx,
Bobby Sherman,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Buckinghams,
Patti Smith,
Scan 7,
Alice Coltrane,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Barracudas,
Grey Daturas,
Idris Muhammad,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scratch Acid,
Dead Boys,
the Association,
the Bar-Kays,
Harmonia,
a-ha,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Althea and Donna,
Joy Division,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Procol Harum,
Ludus,
Kerrie Biddell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Oblivians,
Wasted Youth,
Brick,
Vainqueur,
Fugazi,
The Monks,
Visage,
Skaos,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Blancmange,
Khruangbin,
48th St. Collective,
Glenn Branca,
The Vogues,
Gastr Del Sol,
David McCallum,
Ituana,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Coltrane,
Grauzone,
Jawbox,
Morten Harket,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pantytec,
Nico,
The Durutti Column,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
MDC,
Jeff Lynne,
LL Cool J,
Monolake,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.