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 Antigua and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the disco 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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
One Last Wish,
Sonic Youth,
Wasted Youth,
Sister Nancy,
Gastr Del Sol,
James White and The Blacks,
Agent Orange,
Carl Craig,
Eli Mardock,
Funky Four + One,
Hot Snakes,
DJ Style,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sam Rivers,
Spoonie Gee,
Jeru the Damaja,
Joe Finger,
The Happenings,
The Young Rascals,
Deadbeat,
Goldenarms,
Interpol,
Kurtis Blow,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Buckinghams,
The Divine Comedy,
Porter Ricks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Stiv Bators,
Bad Manners,
The Monochrome Set,
The Sonics,
Joy Division,
Groovy Waters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
JFA,
Supertramp,
The Slits,
Kaleidoscope,
The Victims,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Tremeloes,
Sound Behaviour,
Dennis Brown,
The Dave Clark Five,
Radiohead,
Television Personalities,
Angry Samoans,
Jacques Brel,
Heaven 17,
Man Parrish,
Jesper Dahlback,
John Lydon,
Eric B and Rakim,
CMW,
Boredoms,
Sparks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.