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 Guinea and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 arpeggiator 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Saints,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Funkadelic,
Ohio Players,
Arab on Radar,
Das Ding,
The Pretty Things,
Rhythm & Sound,
Joyce Sims,
Panda Bear,
Scrapy,
The Fall,
Adolescents,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cluster,
The Moody Blues,
Rosa Yemen,
Nirvana,
Nas,
Accadde A,
Lucky Dragons,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Durutti Column,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bobbi Humphrey,
In Retrospect,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Joy Division,
DJ Sneak,
Sight & Sound,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Symarip,
The Alarm Clocks,
Index,
Television Personalities,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Wasted Youth,
Althea and Donna,
JFA,
Barrington Levy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marshall Jefferson,
Peter & Gordon,
Banda Bassotti,
The Zeros,
Livin' Joy,
Laurel Aitken,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cecil Taylor,
the Sonics,
Heaven 17,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Second Layer,
The Searchers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Minny Pops,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.