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 Guatemala and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the techno 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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Gap Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bill Near,
The Gun Club,
X-102,
Minny Pops,
Eden Ahbez,
The Count Five,
Cluster,
Avey Tare,
MC5,
Gong,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Circle Jerks,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Neon Judgement,
Motorama,
Blancmange,
Grauzone,
Pagans,
Fluxion,
Arthur Verocai,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sight & Sound,
Oneida,
Sällskapet,
Subhumans,
Symarip,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mr. Review,
Half Japanese,
Gang Starr,
Arcadia,
Davy DMX,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ituana,
Marcia Griffiths,
Terry Callier,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Toni Rubio,
Zero Boys,
Q65,
Gastr Del Sol,
Nils Olav,
John Lydon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Boredoms,
Theoretical Girls,
Ornette Coleman,
Robert Görl,
Warren Ellis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sister Nancy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.