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 Norway and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Madrid.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Slick Rick to the rock 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Junior Murvin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ten City,
The Velvet Underground,
Hasil Adkins,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
10cc,
Panda Bear,
Harpers Bizarre,
Talk Talk,
Scott Walker,
Model 500,
The Wake,
Graham Central Station,
Thompson Twins,
The Star Department,
Q and Not U,
Althea and Donna,
The Remains,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moby Grape,
Lakeside,
Slick Rick,
Nico,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wasted Youth,
Los Fastidios,
Cecil Taylor,
Outsiders,
Black Bananas,
Animal Collective,
U.S. Maple,
the Association,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scrapy,
the Normal,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
MC5,
Lou Reed,
Yusef Lateef,
Japan,
Livin' Joy,
Pagans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Donny Hathaway,
Glambeats Corp.,
Darondo,
K-Klass,
DJ Sneak,
Eve St. Jones,
This Heat,
Joyce Sims,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Monolake,
Rekid,
Donald Byrd,
Roxette,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.