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 Mongolia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Robert Wyatt to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry Gold Smith 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Yusef Lateef,
Cymande,
Anthony Braxton,
Marc Almond,
Leonard Cohen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jacob Miller,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Victims,
Quadrant,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Swans,
Animal Collective,
Donald Byrd,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pylon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Slits,
Josef K,
Basic Channel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tubeway Army,
Nick Fraelich,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
DNA,
Al Stewart,
Zapp,
Eden Ahbez,
Cecil Taylor,
Loose Ends,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sound Behaviour,
Aaron Thompson,
The Selecter,
Tomorrow,
Alison Limerick,
The Five Americans,
Royal Trux,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Invisible,
Junior Murvin,
Kerrie Biddell,
Moebius,
Buzzcocks,
Arab on Radar,
Bang On A Can,
Metal Thangz,
Gong,
Erykah Badu,
Accadde A,
Procol Harum,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moss Icon,
Radiohead,
The Pretty Things,
Symarip,
Ludus,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.