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 Canada and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe 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 Don Cherry to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dirtbombs,
The Monochrome Set,
The Vogues,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kerri Chandler,
Thee Headcoats,
The Residents,
Terry Callier,
Maurizio,
Danielle Patucci,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dave Gahan,
48th St. Collective,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jawbox,
Eurythmics,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Shadows of Knight,
DJ Sneak,
Pole,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fortunes,
Cheater Slicks,
The Smiths,
Subhumans,
Babytalk,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Todd Terry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ponytail,
Lindisfarne,
Gastr Del Sol,
Magazine,
Yazoo,
Unwound,
Spoonie Gee,
Boz Scaggs,
Matthew Halsall,
Barry Ungar,
Joy Division,
Pantytec,
Kevin Saunderson,
Albert Ayler,
the Association,
The Stooges,
Black Bananas,
Scott Walker,
China Crisis,
Max Romeo,
Grauzone,
The Divine Comedy,
Quantec,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fall,
Barbara Tucker,
Cluster,
Desert Stars,
Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy.
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.