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 Grenada and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Public Enemy to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Harpers Bizarre,
MDC,
The Smoke,
Joe Smooth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Moss Icon,
The Modern Lovers,
Leonard Cohen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Angry Samoans,
Negative Approach,
AZ,
World's Most,
Accadde A,
The Zeros,
The Buckinghams,
Amon Düül II,
Graham Central Station,
Rapeman,
Tres Demented,
The Associates,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Beau Brummels,
Wally Richardson,
Donny Hathaway,
Neu!,
Derrick Morgan,
Qualms,
John Foxx,
Public Image Ltd.,
Das Ding,
Camouflage,
Bluetip,
Girls At Our Best!,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wire,
EPMD,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Arab on Radar,
The Evens,
John Cale,
Eden Ahbez,
Robert Wyatt,
Lightning Bolt,
Skriet,
Kayak,
Liliput,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Swans,
Television,
Basic Channel,
Boz Scaggs,
Technova,
Rosa Yemen,
Tommy Roe,
Dual Sessions,
the Normal,
Skarface,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Moleskins,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.