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 Belarus and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ 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 AZ to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
The Smiths,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eddi Front,
Lightning Bolt,
Tubeway Army,
Oblivians,
Black Sheep,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marshall Jefferson,
Soul II Soul,
LL Cool J,
Inner City,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jerry's Kids,
Gil Scott Heron,
Outsiders,
Scrapy,
The Fuzztones,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Index,
D'Angelo,
The Monks,
Rotary Connection,
Bobby Byrd,
EPMD,
Barbara Tucker,
Scientists,
The Mummies,
Reagan Youth,
Newcleus,
Connie Case,
Lebanon Hanover,
One Last Wish,
Soft Machine,
The Offenders,
Fad Gadget,
Quantec,
Cal Tjader,
a-ha,
The Golliwogs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mission of Burma,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Piero Umiliani,
Ornette Coleman,
The Knickerbockers,
Black Bananas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ronnie Foster,
Eurythmics,
Man Parrish,
Depeche Mode,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Vogues,
Bang On A Can,
Kenny Larkin,
OOIOO,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.