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 Guatemala and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Man Parrish to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Nas,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Drive Like Jehu,
Flash Fearless,
Zero Boys,
Liliput,
Cecil Taylor,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Panda Bear,
Von Mondo,
Little Man,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jandek,
Al Stewart,
B.T. Express,
Camouflage,
Jacques Brel,
The Cowsills,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eurythmics,
The Alarm Clocks,
MC5,
Cymande,
Harpers Bizarre,
DNA,
The Monochrome Set,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
R.M.O.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Order,
Gang Green,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mandrill,
T. Rex,
Cal Tjader,
The Move,
Deakin,
Brick,
Maleditus Sound,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
T.S.O.L.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jeff Lynne,
The Wake,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skarface,
Brass Construction,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Theoretical Girls,
Main Source,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Toasters,
Hashim,
Interpol,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.