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 Libya and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb 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 Animal Collective to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fela Kuti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Cal Tjader,
Toni Rubio,
Jandek,
Scott Walker,
The Busters,
Lungfish,
MC5,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gang Green,
Blake Baxter,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Barry Ungar,
Ronan,
PIL,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Marvin Gaye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Andrew Hill,
Sandy B,
Warsaw,
Alison Limerick,
Bad Manners,
Moby Grape,
Janne Schatter,
Technova,
This Heat,
New Age Steppers,
The Standells,
Tim Buckley,
The Wake,
The Pop Group,
Dual Sessions,
Model 500,
Robert Wyatt,
Sight & Sound,
Quadrant,
Hasil Adkins,
Reagan Youth,
Pylon,
Young Marble Giants,
Public Enemy,
Pharoah Sanders,
T. Rex,
Absolute Body Control,
Unrelated Segments,
The Mummies,
June Days,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Black Flag,
Al Stewart,
Funkadelic,
The Slackers,
Leonard Cohen,
Unwound,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The United States of America,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Darondo,
Gichy Dan,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.