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 Thailand and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Brick to the punk 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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway 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?
Soft Machine,
Pylon,
Marine Girls,
Bush Tetras,
The Dirtbombs,
Urselle,
John Holt,
The Knickerbockers,
The Music Machine,
Camberwell Now,
Monks,
The Electric Prunes,
Japan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Grauzone,
Quantec,
The Invisible,
Danielle Patucci,
Todd Rundgren,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bobby Sherman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Talk Talk,
Spoonie Gee,
the Bar-Kays,
The Raincoats,
Warren Ellis,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Popol Vuh,
Sex Pistols,
L. Decosne,
Cal Tjader,
Lou Reed,
Kool Moe Dee,
Infiniti,
Yaz,
Intrusion,
Crooked Eye,
Joy Division,
Nation of Ulysses,
Siglo XX,
Minny Pops,
Gang of Four,
Ohio Players,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Zeros,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lyres,
The Misunderstood,
Rites of Spring,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Slick Rick,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Alarm Clocks,
Tomorrow,
Charles Mingus,
The Residents,
Electric Prunes,
FM Einheit,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Doors,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.