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 Australia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Marmalade to the rock 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Rotary Connection,
Johnny Osbourne,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Freddie Wadling,
Siglo XX,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ice-T,
Patti Smith,
Kayak,
Nas,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Pus,
Agitation Free,
Crispian St. Peters,
Minny Pops,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fat Boys,
Supertramp,
Interpol,
Lightning Bolt,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Main Source,
Andrew Hill,
Lee Hazlewood,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Faraquet,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Fugs,
Funky Four + One,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bobby Sherman,
10cc,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Stereo Dub,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Arcadia,
Junior Murvin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Grauzone,
Moby Grape,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lakeside,
Cal Tjader,
Deakin,
Sixth Finger,
Skriet,
Easy Going,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Modern Lovers,
Bob Dylan,
Jawbox,
Connie Case,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oneida,
The Fuzztones,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.