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 Uganda and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Quantec to the techno 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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eve St. Jones 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
Hasil Adkins,
Funky Four + One,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rekid,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Stereo Dub,
The Music Machine,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Busters,
These Immortal Souls,
Erykah Badu,
Gregory Isaacs,
Blancmange,
Khruangbin,
Mo-Dettes,
Hoover,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Unrelated Segments,
Bang On A Can,
Lee Hazlewood,
Supertramp,
Angry Samoans,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
A Certain Ratio,
Lalo Schifrin,
Althea and Donna,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Y Pants,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Scan 7,
David McCallum,
The Cramps,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Absolute Body Control,
Gabor Szabo,
Jacques Brel,
Junior Murvin,
Tim Buckley,
Crispy Ambulance,
Joy Division,
The Moody Blues,
Harry Pussy,
Kayak,
Shuggie Otis,
Niagra,
Warsaw,
Laurel Aitken,
Drexciya,
Eric Copeland,
Morten Harket,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bobby Byrd,
Lindisfarne,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Animal Collective,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scrapy,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.