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 Latvia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bobby Sherman to the techno 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Black Dice,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Buckinghams,
Flash Fearless,
Goldenarms,
Excepter,
Cal Tjader,
Ultra Naté,
Camouflage,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Lydon,
Eli Mardock,
Maleditus Sound,
Wasted Youth,
New Order,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Idris Muhammad,
Shoche,
Cheater Slicks,
the Soft Cell,
The Gun Club,
Sparks,
Mandrill,
The Fugs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
10cc,
Grauzone,
Blancmange,
K-Klass,
The Skatalites,
The Slackers,
Banda Bassotti,
Au Pairs,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cecil Taylor,
Pantytec,
Piero Umiliani,
Kayak,
Jeff Mills,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Scott Walker,
The Grass Roots,
Lalann,
Clear Light,
Ice-T,
Amon Düül,
EPMD,
CMW,
Janne Schatter,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Durutti Column,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dave Gahan,
Roxy Music,
Rosa Yemen,
Black Bananas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.