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 San Marino and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bad Manners to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Patti Smith,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Sheep,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nik Kershaw,
Public Image Ltd.,
Massinfluence,
The Offenders,
Animal Collective,
Spoonie Gee,
the Bar-Kays,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultravox,
Supertramp,
Warsaw,
Minnie Riperton,
Urselle,
Kaleidoscope,
New York Dolls,
The Wake,
Soft Machine,
Boz Scaggs,
Joyce Sims,
Banda Bassotti,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fugazi,
Malaria!,
Radio Birdman,
Matthew Halsall,
Roxy Music,
John Holt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Country Teasers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
CMW,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sixth Finger,
The Monks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cymande,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fuzztones,
Main Source,
Mission of Burma,
Gabor Szabo,
Josef K,
World's Most,
Laurel Aitken,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lucky Dragons,
Lindisfarne,
LL Cool J,
Skaos,
Lalo Schifrin,
Absolute Body Control,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mr. Review,
Fela Kuti,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.