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 India and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 Lower 48 to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Stereo Dub,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Thompson Twins,
Smog,
Chris Corsano,
Scan 7,
Juan Atkins,
Panda Bear,
Sight & Sound,
Au Pairs,
Interpol,
Slick Rick,
Grey Daturas,
Piero Umiliani,
Susan Cadogan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
China Crisis,
Urselle,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
World's Most,
Tears for Fears,
Kenny Larkin,
Cal Tjader,
The American Breed,
Subhumans,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mars,
Surgeon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ituana,
Sound Behaviour,
Silicon Teens,
The Kinks,
Brick,
Scion,
Amon Düül II,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Al Stewart,
The Knickerbockers,
Magma,
Laurel Aitken,
Janne Schatter,
Hasil Adkins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Supertramp,
The Gap Band,
Can,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
La Düsseldorf,
James White and The Blacks,
Albert Ayler,
Bad Manners,
Agitation Free,
Rod Modell,
The Sound,
Aswad,
Wings,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swans,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.