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 Uzbekistan and from Salvador.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Deepchord to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Gastr Del Sol,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Second Layer,
Bang On A Can,
The Offenders,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Easy Going,
The Residents,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Cale,
Y Pants,
Todd Rundgren,
Fear,
Soft Machine,
Sex Pistols,
Underground Resistance,
The Gap Band,
Freddie Wadling,
The Birthday Party,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Guru Guru,
The Mojo Men,
Pagans,
D'Angelo,
Tres Demented,
China Crisis,
The Associates,
The J.B.'s,
T. Rex,
The Sonics,
Tears for Fears,
Symarip,
The Fire Engines,
Bronski Beat,
Zero Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
Don Cherry,
Monolake,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minor Threat,
Black Pus,
B.T. Express,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Normal,
Jawbox,
Susan Cadogan,
The Doors,
Boz Scaggs,
Cecil Taylor,
Dennis Brown,
Sun Ra,
Supertramp,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Pretty Things,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fat Boys,
Smog,
Blake Baxter,
Main Source,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.