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 Haiti and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron 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 Peter & Gordon to the disco 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 Mummies. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Aswad,
The Monochrome Set,
Supertramp,
The Gladiators,
Bill Near,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Wake,
Jawbox,
Peter and Kerry,
Duran Duran,
Ultimate Spinach,
Delon & Dalcan,
Andrew Hill,
Schoolly D,
Fela Kuti,
T.S.O.L.,
Colin Newman,
Pantaleimon,
The Raincoats,
Pere Ubu,
Cal Tjader,
Mo-Dettes,
Flash Fearless,
Reuben Wilson,
DJ Style,
Davy DMX,
Panda Bear,
The Leaves,
Infiniti,
The Cowsills,
Ken Boothe,
The Cure,
The Grass Roots,
Marvin Gaye,
Archie Shepp,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Talk Talk,
48th St. Collective,
Crooked Eye,
Cecil Taylor,
John Foxx,
Amon Düül,
Isaac Hayes,
Glenn Branca,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Second Layer,
Gang Starr,
Visage,
U.S. Maple,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Zero Boys,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
a-ha,
Kenny Larkin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pole,
Fugazi,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Harmonia,
Yusef Lateef,
Von Mondo,
ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC.
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.