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 Bulgaria and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 linndrum 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 Warren Ellis to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Wire,
MC5,
Pagans,
Al Stewart,
Lower 48,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fuzztones,
Harmonia,
Icehouse,
The Alarm Clocks,
Curtis Mayfield,
LL Cool J,
The Selecter,
The Monochrome Set,
Gong,
Soul II Soul,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
FM Einheit,
Roy Ayers,
Ten City,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pantaleimon,
Stereo Dub,
Q65,
Pere Ubu,
David Bowie,
Make Up,
Cluster,
EPMD,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Blake Baxter,
The Last Poets,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Banda Bassotti,
Ice-T,
Reagan Youth,
The Techniques,
Funky Four + One,
Bad Manners,
Scan 7,
Hasil Adkins,
Skriet,
48th St. Collective,
Bootsy Collins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rotary Connection,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fire Engines,
Bobby Womack,
Thompson Twins,
Rosa Yemen,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Susan Cadogan,
the Sonics,
One Last Wish,
The Gap Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Star Department,
The Skatalites,
Saccharine Trust,
the Slits,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.