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 Portugal and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the rock 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 T. Rex. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Doors,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joe Smooth,
Mandrill,
Idris Muhammad,
Animal Collective,
Aural Exciters,
Ten City,
CMW,
Amon Düül,
Patti Smith,
Sällskapet,
Tubeway Army,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Cluster,
Rotary Connection,
The Fortunes,
Jawbox,
Zero Boys,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Soft Cell,
Quantec,
Crispian St. Peters,
Visage,
Thompson Twins,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gang Green,
Rites of Spring,
Suburban Knight,
The Associates,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Agitation Free,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Urselle,
Simply Red,
Peter and Kerry,
Derrick Morgan,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Victims,
The Mojo Men,
Excepter,
Scrapy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Chris & Cosey,
Liliput,
Gabor Szabo,
David McCallum,
Mark Hollis,
Public Enemy,
Sun City Girls,
Michelle Simonal,
The Misunderstood,
Rakim,
Brand Nubian,
Joy Division,
The Fire Engines,
Gerry Rafferty,
John Lydon,
Maurizio,
Camberwell Now,
Drive Like Jehu,
Carl Craig,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.