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 Solomon Islands and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Louis and Bebe Barron to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spandau Ballet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
The Angels of Light,
X-102,
R.M.O.,
Black Moon,
The Busters,
World's Most,
FM Einheit,
Groovy Waters,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kevin Saunderson,
Shuggie Otis,
the Sonics,
Patti Smith,
David Bowie,
Fear,
Pharoah Sanders,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Motorama,
Rufus Thomas,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Chris Corsano,
Rekid,
Roy Ayers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Big Daddy Kane,
Todd Rundgren,
Monolake,
John Coltrane,
Josef K,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nation of Ulysses,
Throbbing Gristle,
Monks,
Andrew Hill,
Michelle Simonal,
Faraquet,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Au Pairs,
Section 25,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Maurizio,
The Count Five,
Wasted Youth,
The Sonics,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lightning Bolt,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Moby Grape,
Whodini,
Procol Harum,
Swans,
Depeche Mode,
Hasil Adkins,
Aaron Thompson,
The Music Machine,
Livin' Joy,
Yellowson,
The Martian,
Crispian St. Peters,
Roxette,
Tommy Roe,
Don Cherry,
Gabor Szabo,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.