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 Micronesia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gong to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Jerry's Kids,
Camberwell Now,
Lightning Bolt,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
AZ,
Bill Near,
Joe Smooth,
Johnny Osbourne,
ABC,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
KRS-One,
Ornette Coleman,
Ronan,
Todd Terry,
Chrome,
R.M.O.,
The Modern Lovers,
Boz Scaggs,
Eric Dolphy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Infiniti,
The Techniques,
The Litter,
The Gladiators,
Swans,
Don Cherry,
Pantytec,
Zero Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Main Source,
The Sound,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Juan Atkins,
48th St. Collective,
Dark Day,
Marine Girls,
Sarah Menescal,
Graham Central Station,
Sam Rivers,
Supertramp,
Colin Newman,
Reuben Wilson,
A Certain Ratio,
Khruangbin,
Davy DMX,
Donald Byrd,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lalann,
Pierre Henry,
Japan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Amon Düül,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soul II Soul,
Little Man,
Adolescents,
Vladislav Delay,
Kenny Larkin,
Alice Coltrane,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Liliput,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.