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 Bhutan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ronan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
The Moody Blues,
Brass Construction,
Ludus,
The Skatalites,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Count Five,
Gang Starr,
Roy Ayers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mo-Dettes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Saccharine Trust,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Bananas,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Simply Red,
Man Parrish,
Anthony Braxton,
Young Marble Giants,
Bad Manners,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Busters,
Outsiders,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Monochrome Set,
John Coltrane,
Nas,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Can,
Swans,
Soul II Soul,
Sugar Minott,
Suicide,
Skriet,
Hardrive,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Au Pairs,
Pylon,
Babytalk,
Lou Reed,
Leonard Cohen,
The Saints,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
AZ,
The New Christs,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Connie Case,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Public Enemy,
Negative Approach,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Q and Not U,
Delta 5,
The Pop Group,
Ten City,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.