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 Turkey and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Supertramp to the grunge 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 The Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Niagra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Erasure,
Whodini,
Nico,
Lou Christie,
The Mummies,
Maurizio,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Doors,
Avey Tare,
Graham Central Station,
Accadde A,
John Holt,
China Crisis,
Yellowson,
Outsiders,
The Remains,
The Selecter,
Cybotron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pylon,
Roy Ayers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mission of Burma,
Faraquet,
Brick,
X-102,
Nation of Ulysses,
JFA,
Alison Limerick,
K-Klass,
Ossler,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Moby Grape,
Suburban Knight,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Index,
The Fall,
Panda Bear,
Intrusion,
Rakim,
Junior Murvin,
Rotary Connection,
David McCallum,
The Alarm Clocks,
Yusef Lateef,
Bush Tetras,
Los Fastidios,
Robert Hood,
Unrelated Segments,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Guru Guru,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bauhaus,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aswad,
Buzzcocks,
Howard Jones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.