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 Seychelles and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Echospace,
Deepchord,
Rakim,
Inner City,
Silicon Teens,
Popol Vuh,
The Music Machine,
Thompson Twins,
Peter and Kerry,
Average White Band,
Scion,
The Happenings,
Essential Logic,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sandy B,
Los Fastidios,
Anthony Braxton,
Youth Brigade,
Joe Smooth,
The Toasters,
Darondo,
Cymande,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Count Five,
Grauzone,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Simply Red,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Flipper,
Unwound,
Ken Boothe,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ludus,
Accadde A,
The Beau Brummels,
The Mummies,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Kinks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jesper Dahlback,
Theoretical Girls,
Lyres,
Kerri Chandler,
Eve St. Jones,
Joensuu 1685,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed,
Technova,
Ultravox,
Kayak,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Soft Cell,
Mars,
Blossom Toes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Suburban Knight,
K-Klass,
Khruangbin,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.