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 Saudi Arabia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Warren Ellis to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sexual Harrassment record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Q and Not U,
Whodini,
Second Layer,
Roger Hodgson,
Essential Logic,
Reagan Youth,
Trumans Water,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Idris Muhammad,
Pylon,
Minutemen,
Isaac Hayes,
Newcleus,
World's Most,
Urselle,
Minny Pops,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Black Dice,
Wire,
Television Personalities,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Buzzcocks,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Soft Cell,
Gabor Szabo,
Faraquet,
Laurel Aitken,
Amazonics,
Thee Headcoats,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang of Four,
PIL,
Soul II Soul,
The Count Five,
Archie Shepp,
Rakim,
Eve St. Jones,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Franke,
The Saints,
Colin Newman,
Bluetip,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Techniques,
Bronski Beat,
The Kinks,
Fela Kuti,
The Mighty Diamonds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stereo Dub,
The J.B.'s,
Anthony Braxton,
Massinfluence,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nik Kershaw,
L. Decosne,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.