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 Mali and from Shanghai.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Eric Dolphy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
Judy Mowatt,
New Order,
Grauzone,
Don Cherry,
Connie Case,
Massinfluence,
Pole,
Gichy Dan,
Q and Not U,
Althea and Donna,
Danielle Patucci,
Trumans Water,
X-Ray Spex,
Average White Band,
The Birthday Party,
Toni Rubio,
Scratch Acid,
Maleditus Sound,
Kurtis Blow,
Newcleus,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Deadbeat,
Rakim,
The Divine Comedy,
Arthur Verocai,
Bizarre Inc.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lee Hazlewood,
Black Sheep,
Jacques Brel,
Public Image Ltd.,
DJ Style,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lucky Dragons,
Scott Walker,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Harpers Bizarre,
Underground Resistance,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Kevin Saunderson,
Drexciya,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Visage,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Happenings,
T.S.O.L.,
MDC,
Thompson Twins,
Brass Construction,
The Fortunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Clear Light,
cv313,
Parry Music,
DJ Sneak,
Fear,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sound Behaviour,
Electric Prunes,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.