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 Singapore and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Mandrill,
Sun Ra,
Robert Hood,
Pylon,
Royal Trux,
Ornette Coleman,
Joy Division,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Aaron Thompson,
Los Fastidios,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scratch Acid,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Doobie Brothers,
T.S.O.L.,
Audionom,
Livin' Joy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Donald Byrd,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Unrelated Segments,
Lebanon Hanover,
Darondo,
Chris & Cosey,
Junior Murvin,
Moss Icon,
Model 500,
The Real Kids,
Guru Guru,
Scott Walker,
Arcadia,
Nirvana,
Erasure,
Clear Light,
Derrick Morgan,
Quadrant,
Reagan Youth,
New Order,
Sly & The Family Stone,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Buzzcocks,
Cameo,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Slits,
John Lydon,
Peter and Kerry,
Half Japanese,
The Golliwogs,
Camberwell Now,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Stereo Dub,
Main Source,
Henry Cow,
Scrapy,
DJ Style,
Warren Ellis,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.