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 Uzbekistan and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Joy Division to the grunge 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Essential Logic,
The Gun Club,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Unwound,
Faust,
Fad Gadget,
Godley & Creme,
The Motions,
Kool Moe Dee,
Robert Hood,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gastr Del Sol,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rakim,
Q and Not U,
Rotary Connection,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Section 25,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Young Marble Giants,
Lungfish,
Magazine,
kango's stein massive,
Barbara Tucker,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Avey Tare,
KRS-One,
Mad Mike,
Bizarre Inc.,
48th St. Collective,
Robert Wyatt,
Kerrie Biddell,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Todd Rundgren,
Symarip,
Little Man,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Suburban Knight,
Harry Pussy,
Don Cherry,
Nils Olav,
Pulsallama,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Monochrome Set,
Man Parrish,
The Red Krayola,
Liliput,
Fluxion,
The Five Americans,
Adolescents,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dave Gahan,
Panda Bear,
Livin' Joy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.