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 Vanuatu and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
China Crisis,
David Axelrod,
June Days,
Harry Pussy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nico,
Scion,
The Fire Engines,
Todd Terry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ponytail,
48th St. Collective,
Lyres,
Babytalk,
PIL,
Al Stewart,
JFA,
Rosa Yemen,
MDC,
Ronnie Foster,
Pagans,
The Walker Brothers,
Cal Tjader,
The Young Rascals,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Au Pairs,
Grauzone,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Tubeway Army,
Cecil Taylor,
John Holt,
Todd Rundgren,
Intrusion,
The Buckinghams,
The Dirtbombs,
Excepter,
Royal Trux,
Sparks,
Barrington Levy,
The Offenders,
Organ,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mark Hollis,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Vogues,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
X-101,
MC5,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Warsaw,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Metal Thangz,
The Knickerbockers,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Techniques,
The Searchers,
Amon Düül,
Piero Umiliani,
The Dead C,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.