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 Calgary.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scion to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Robert Wyatt,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jawbox,
Angry Samoans,
Lou Reed,
Animal Collective,
Reuben Wilson,
Thompson Twins,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
MC5,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marvin Gaye,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Arthur Verocai,
Japan,
The Walker Brothers,
David Bowie,
Reagan Youth,
Bill Wells,
Funkadelic,
The Tremeloes,
New York Dolls,
Delta 5,
PIL,
Morten Harket,
John Lydon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Albert Ayler,
Tomorrow,
Derrick May,
The Zeros,
Sugar Minott,
Scan 7,
Lower 48,
New Age Steppers,
The Birthday Party,
Model 500,
Desert Stars,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dorothy Ashby,
OOIOO,
Archie Shepp,
The Names,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Moebius,
Theoretical Girls,
Hashim,
Young Marble Giants,
the Slits,
Black Pus,
Maleditus Sound,
Roger Hodgson,
Silicon Teens,
Isaac Hayes,
Black Moon,
Talk Talk,
Los Fastidios,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.