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 Colombia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Sound to the rock 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Radio Birdman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rites of Spring,
Alison Limerick,
Ohio Players,
FM Einheit,
Soulsonic Force,
Soft Cell,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soul II Soul,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Arcadia,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tears for Fears,
The Mummies,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Searchers,
Eddi Front,
Wings,
Scrapy,
Colin Newman,
Public Enemy,
La Düsseldorf,
Delta 5,
Scion,
Crooked Eye,
Wally Richardson,
Hardrive,
Negative Approach,
Gang Green,
The Trojans,
Big Daddy Kane,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sonny Sharrock,
Deadbeat,
Scientists,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Litter,
the Fania All-Stars,
Parry Music,
Quantec,
Blancmange,
Duran Duran,
Animal Collective,
Dennis Brown,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neu!,
Wasted Youth,
The Wake,
Tres Demented,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DJ Sneak,
Soul Sonic Force,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
New Order,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Knickerbockers,
The Count Five,
The Five Americans,
The Kinks,
Sandy B,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.