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 Albania and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Derrick Morgan to the crunk 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Alison Limerick,
Leonard Cohen,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scan 7,
Parry Music,
Section 25,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tears for Fears,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Harmonia,
Trumans Water,
Outsiders,
Eric B and Rakim,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Anakelly,
Newcleus,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Laurel Aitken,
Au Pairs,
These Immortal Souls,
DJ Sneak,
The Trojans,
The Divine Comedy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kas Product,
Duran Duran,
The Kinks,
Jawbox,
Funky Four + One,
Skarface,
E-Dancer,
Anthony Braxton,
Royal Trux,
Cheater Slicks,
Stetsasonic,
Groovy Waters,
Howard Jones,
Mars,
Idris Muhammad,
LL Cool J,
Max Romeo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultra Naté,
The Remains,
The Last Poets,
Sandy B,
The Offenders,
Fear,
Average White Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Pantytec,
Ituana,
Television,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Saints,
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.