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 New Zealand and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Ajijia Myrayebe to the funk 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Clear Light,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Infiniti,
Agent Orange,
The Fuzztones,
Man Eating Sloth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool Moe Dee,
June Days,
New Order,
Q65,
Babytalk,
10cc,
Junior Murvin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Neon Judgement,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
K-Klass,
Symarip,
Silicon Teens,
Ituana,
DJ Sneak,
Lucky Dragons,
The Blackbyrds,
Fela Kuti,
John Cale,
Danielle Patucci,
Black Bananas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Electric Prunes,
Audionom,
Sun Ra,
Boogie Down Productions,
cv313,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cluster,
Josef K,
the Soft Cell,
Supertramp,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sonic Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pussy Galore,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Shadows of Knight,
Moebius,
The Mummies,
Marvin Gaye,
Ash Ra Tempel,
La Düsseldorf,
Avey Tare,
Sister Nancy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
John Foxx,
The Human League,
Public Enemy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.