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 Angola and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sonny Sharrock to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Lynne,
Josef K,
Sällskapet,
The Knickerbockers,
Chris & Cosey,
World's Most,
Yazoo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
La Düsseldorf,
Warren Ellis,
The Smiths,
Robert Wyatt,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bobby Sherman,
Marvin Gaye,
The Durutti Column,
Janne Schatter,
The Star Department,
Jandek,
Q65,
New Order,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
A Certain Ratio,
L. Decosne,
Fluxion,
Althea and Donna,
The Moleskins,
Tim Buckley,
Rakim,
Loose Ends,
Sparks,
Roger Hodgson,
Cheater Slicks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Cale,
Laurel Aitken,
Arthur Verocai,
Girls At Our Best!,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Slick Rick,
Kenny Larkin,
Aural Exciters,
Stockholm Monsters,
Erykah Badu,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Marc Almond,
Minor Threat,
The Fugs,
Monolake,
Joensuu 1685,
Icehouse,
Donald Byrd,
Royal Trux,
Anthony Braxton,
Darondo,
Nas,
The Sound,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.