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 Guinea and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul 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 organ 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the disco 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
The Last Poets,
Moebius,
Lou Christie,
cv313,
The Stooges,
Flamin' Groovies,
Aloha Tigers,
Donny Hathaway,
The Martian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Bootsy Collins,
Laurel Aitken,
Dennis Brown,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fear,
Roy Ayers,
Vainqueur,
Wings,
Derrick May,
Bob Dylan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
DJ Style,
Kevin Saunderson,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Sound,
Lebanon Hanover,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Negative Approach,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pantaleimon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Colin Newman,
Susan Cadogan,
Albert Ayler,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Cowsills,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rod Modell,
Depeche Mode,
The Gap Band,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eurythmics,
Scratch Acid,
Television,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
ABC,
Lalo Schifrin,
Simply Red,
June Days,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Residents,
Sarah Menescal,
June of 44,
The Searchers,
Pagans,
Stockholm Monsters,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton 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.