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 Mexico and from Hong Kong.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 harpsichord 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 Matthew Bourne to the grime 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Q65,
Morten Harket,
F. McDonald,
The Offenders,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ice-T,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Essential Logic,
Mars,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dave Gahan,
Ossler,
Kevin Saunderson,
Skaos,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Procol Harum,
Anthony Braxton,
The Modern Lovers,
Motorama,
The Searchers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Robert Wyatt,
Sexual Harrassment,
Au Pairs,
Nirvana,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Five Americans,
the Sonics,
Boredoms,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Slave,
EPMD,
Bluetip,
Model 500,
Brand Nubian,
The Moody Blues,
Reagan Youth,
The Buckinghams,
Slick Rick,
Unrelated Segments,
Absolute Body Control,
The Leaves,
Derrick May,
Radiohead,
The Barracudas,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Babytalk,
Bill Near,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gang Starr,
Derrick Morgan,
Pagans,
Fear,
The Standells,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.