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 Sierra Leone and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the jazz 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 New Christs. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Quando Quango,
Rufus Thomas,
Matthew Bourne,
The Smoke,
The Standells,
The Count Five,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Fugs,
Black Bananas,
Ultravox,
Interpol,
Bad Manners,
The Durutti Column,
Desert Stars,
Kas Product,
The Associates,
Black Moon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Panda Bear,
Blake Baxter,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Oblivians,
Man Parrish,
The Vogues,
Zapp,
Anthony Braxton,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Liliput,
Little Man,
The Litter,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gil Scott Heron,
In Retrospect,
Slave,
The Sonics,
Patti Smith,
Janne Schatter,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eurythmics,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantaleimon,
Scan 7,
Funkadelic,
Bush Tetras,
Essential Logic,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Techniques,
Idris Muhammad,
The Gun Club,
Don Cherry,
Soul Sonic Force,
Second Layer,
Excepter,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Yazoo,
Maleditus Sound,
Grey Daturas,
Technova,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.