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 Brazil and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 mellotron 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 Girls At Our Best! to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Brand Nubian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Basic Channel,
Maleditus Sound,
Curtis Mayfield,
Arcadia,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scott Walker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Hill,
Gang of Four,
Lungfish,
Lower 48,
Swans,
Rufus Thomas,
Swell Maps,
Chrome,
B.T. Express,
Glambeats Corp.,
Masters at Work,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Tim Buckley,
The Grass Roots,
Intrusion,
Letta Mbulu,
Wasted Youth,
Minnie Riperton,
Crooked Eye,
Deepchord,
Electric Prunes,
JFA,
Leonard Cohen,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mad Mike,
Yellowson,
The Vogues,
Ultravox,
Deakin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Moody Blues,
Jesper Dahlback,
Alice Coltrane,
Jawbox,
Television,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mandrill,
Visage,
Youth Brigade,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Neil Young,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Magma,
Goldenarms,
Vladislav Delay,
Idris Muhammad,
John Cale,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Skaos,
Lucky Dragons,
The Gun Club,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.