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 Tanzania and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Severed Heads to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Japan,
The Evens,
Crash Course in Science,
Arcadia,
One Last Wish,
Rotary Connection,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fad Gadget,
Grauzone,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gang Green,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Outsiders,
Kurtis Blow,
The Buckinghams,
Arab on Radar,
The Gap Band,
Matthew Bourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
10cc,
R.M.O.,
The Gories,
Newcleus,
Todd Rundgren,
Panda Bear,
Peter & Gordon,
Warren Ellis,
Lindisfarne,
The Selecter,
The Raincoats,
Drexciya,
The Invisible,
Ken Boothe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ronan,
Wally Richardson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pere Ubu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hot Snakes,
Frankie Knuckles,
Nick Fraelich,
Wings,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
FM Einheit,
Animal Collective,
Camberwell Now,
Cybotron,
Cal Tjader,
Eve St. Jones,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Durutti Column,
Monolake,
The Slits,
Scrapy,
The Busters,
Sexual Harrassment,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Connie Case,
Man Parrish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.