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 Algeria and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Cure to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Glambeats Corp.. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Dave Gahan,
Sam Rivers,
Jandek,
Morten Harket,
FM Einheit,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Holt,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crime,
Animal Collective,
The Alarm Clocks,
Albert Ayler,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ice-T,
Faust,
Oblivians,
Ornette Coleman,
Joey Negro,
Skriet,
Guru Guru,
The Slits,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Chrome,
Fela Kuti,
Television Personalities,
OOIOO,
Loose Ends,
Agitation Free,
The Beau Brummels,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Maurizio,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ituana,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kas Product,
The Gap Band,
LL Cool J,
The Divine Comedy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cybotron,
Neu!,
Drexciya,
Icehouse,
Moss Icon,
Saccharine Trust,
This Heat,
Rakim,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
JFA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dual Sessions,
The New Christs,
Das Ding,
X-Ray Spex,
Camberwell Now,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.