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 Estonia and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Goldenarms to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Lower 48,
Eurythmics,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soulsonic Force,
Mr. Review,
Pere Ubu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scientists,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Standells,
Bobby Womack,
Kool Moe Dee,
Popol Vuh,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lalo Schifrin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Althea and Donna,
Little Man,
Los Fastidios,
The Moleskins,
Negative Approach,
Public Enemy,
Steve Hackett,
Niagra,
Al Stewart,
Bluetip,
Mars,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rosa Yemen,
The Gap Band,
Minny Pops,
The Dirtbombs,
Can,
Mad Mike,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marine Girls,
The Sound,
Alton Ellis,
Clear Light,
Deadbeat,
Khruangbin,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lyres,
Faraquet,
ABC,
Mantronix,
Alphaville,
Dorothy Ashby,
Panda Bear,
Parry Music,
Shuggie Otis,
B.T. Express,
Sister Nancy,
Minutemen,
L. Decosne,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.