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 Nicaragua and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bologna.
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 clarinet 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 Joe Smooth to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Main Source,
Idris Muhammad,
The Techniques,
Spoonie Gee,
Barry Ungar,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Seeds,
Byron Stingily,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eli Mardock,
Ituana,
Mars,
Ohio Players,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Curtis Mayfield,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bootsy Collins,
Fugazi,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Reuben Wilson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
A Certain Ratio,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lower 48,
Unwound,
The Residents,
FM Einheit,
Black Bananas,
June Days,
Moby Grape,
Motorama,
Fat Boys,
Lucky Dragons,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Grass Roots,
ABC,
Easy Going,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Star Department,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Suburban Knight,
Joy Division,
Soul II Soul,
Minny Pops,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fad Gadget,
Steve Hackett,
Amon Düül,
Lee Hazlewood,
Robert Wyatt,
Grauzone,
Tres Demented,
Subhumans,
Sun Ra,
Patti Smith,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Guru Guru,
Stetsasonic,
Zero Boys,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.