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 Marshall Islands and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 mellotron 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the rock 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
MC5,
Black Flag,
Soft Machine,
Con Funk Shun,
Eden Ahbez,
Y Pants,
Sällskapet,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pole,
The Kinks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Angels of Light,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Chrome,
Mantronix,
David McCallum,
Unwound,
Von Mondo,
Ten City,
kango's stein massive,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Panda Bear,
Aswad,
Lightning Bolt,
The Residents,
U.S. Maple,
Pylon,
Barrington Levy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Offenders,
Mark Hollis,
F. McDonald,
Donald Byrd,
Section 25,
Sex Pistols,
Curtis Mayfield,
New Order,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Procol Harum,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mission of Burma,
Nirvana,
OOIOO,
Tim Buckley,
Albert Ayler,
the Normal,
B.T. Express,
Jacob Miller,
Althea and Donna,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Minutemen,
Marvin Gaye,
Bauhaus,
Ultravox,
Todd Rundgren,
Jeru the Damaja,
Swell Maps,
Pulsallama,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dave Gahan,
The Real Kids,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.