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 Tajikistan and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Zero Boys to the jazz 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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Angry Samoans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Bobby Byrd,
The Toasters,
Model 500,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sonic Youth,
The Fall,
The Zeros,
The Busters,
Skriet,
a-ha,
New Order,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roy Ayers,
Quadrant,
Excepter,
Andrew Hill,
Kaleidoscope,
Cal Tjader,
Althea and Donna,
Guru Guru,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
John Lydon,
cv313,
New York Dolls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Anthony Braxton,
Half Japanese,
Con Funk Shun,
Groovy Waters,
Visage,
Charles Mingus,
Procol Harum,
Glenn Branca,
F. McDonald,
Reuben Wilson,
Panda Bear,
Boredoms,
Outsiders,
Agitation Free,
Cymande,
Tommy Roe,
Jacob Miller,
The Music Machine,
Maurizio,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lower 48,
Letta Mbulu,
Sarah Menescal,
Clear Light,
Ponytail,
KRS-One,
Eurythmics,
Al Stewart,
Bobby Womack,
The Pretty Things,
Eric Dolphy,
The Victims,
Goldenarms,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.