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 Niger and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 linndrum 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 Josef K to the funk 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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
The Modern Lovers,
ABBA,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tim Buckley,
AZ,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Andrew Hill,
Junior Murvin,
Masters at Work,
Zapp,
Marmalade,
The Saints,
Intrusion,
Cal Tjader,
Gang Starr,
Goldenarms,
Procol Harum,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marine Girls,
New Order,
Thompson Twins,
Alton Ellis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wally Richardson,
Simply Red,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Scratch Acid,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ultra Naté,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Walker Brothers,
Depeche Mode,
Ten City,
Amazonics,
China Crisis,
Pagans,
Scrapy,
Mantronix,
DNA,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sun City Girls,
Flipper,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moss Icon,
Fluxion,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scan 7,
Robert Görl,
Lou Reed,
Rosa Yemen,
Bush Tetras,
Hashim,
Trumans Water,
Archie Shepp,
The Star Department,
Harpers Bizarre,
Heaven 17,
CMW,
Boz Scaggs,
Todd Rundgren,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.