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 Czech Republic and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Steve Hackett to the rap 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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Chris Corsano,
Donny Hathaway,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Radio Birdman,
Ultra Naté,
Von Mondo,
Underground Resistance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nik Kershaw,
Visage,
Porter Ricks,
Sandy B,
Lakeside,
Byron Stingily,
Minny Pops,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Simply Red,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dawn Penn,
Franke,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pylon,
The Count Five,
Hasil Adkins,
Cal Tjader,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bobby Womack,
Shoche,
Altered Images,
E-Dancer,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Crooked Eye,
Section 25,
Derrick Morgan,
The Cure,
Mo-Dettes,
Scientists,
Fugazi,
Jesper Dahlback,
Althea and Donna,
Hashim,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tom Boy,
The Gladiators,
8 Eyed Spy,
Johnny Clarke,
Joey Negro,
Gichy Dan,
The Blackbyrds,
The Seeds,
Pantaleimon,
Swell Maps,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rapeman,
Godley & Creme,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.