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 Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Nation of Ulysses,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dual Sessions,
Franke,
Blake Baxter,
Deepchord,
Rod Modell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camouflage,
Grandmaster Flash,
Nico,
The Searchers,
Donald Byrd,
Patti Smith,
Leonard Cohen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rufus Thomas,
DNA,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Alarm Clocks,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tomorrow,
Anakelly,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Infiniti,
the Bar-Kays,
Bill Near,
Main Source,
Mo-Dettes,
Chrome,
Smog,
X-101,
Derrick Morgan,
Liliput,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Agent Orange,
Brick,
Ituana,
Trumans Water,
Hot Snakes,
Jandek,
Idris Muhammad,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Human League,
the Normal,
Kevin Saunderson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Sheep,
The Selecter,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Minor Threat,
Sight & Sound,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.