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 Cuba and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Alice Coltrane to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Technova,
Flamin' Groovies,
Agitation Free,
Amazonics,
Mark Hollis,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Neil Young,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stetsasonic,
Gregory Isaacs,
Todd Rundgren,
Cheater Slicks,
Das Ding,
The Human League,
Black Flag,
Crooked Eye,
The Birthday Party,
Livin' Joy,
Eric Dolphy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
June Days,
Cal Tjader,
Wings,
Camberwell Now,
Aswad,
The Barracudas,
Black Pus,
The Angels of Light,
Cecil Taylor,
Massinfluence,
Boredoms,
Magma,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eve St. Jones,
Danielle Patucci,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Residents,
Gang Green,
The Victims,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tim Buckley,
The Music Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Stooges,
Marine Girls,
Con Funk Shun,
Chrome,
Whodini,
Iggy Pop,
The Blackbyrds,
Qualms,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eric B and Rakim,
Young Marble Giants,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lou Reed,
Cluster,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Animal Collective,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.