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 Grenada and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Thompson Twins to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
a-ha,
Barclay James Harvest,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Monochrome Set,
Grey Daturas,
Anthony Braxton,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Minutemen,
Gabor Szabo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Judy Mowatt,
David Axelrod,
Rotary Connection,
Absolute Body Control,
Arthur Verocai,
Angry Samoans,
Alice Coltrane,
The Count Five,
Eric Copeland,
Urselle,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Prunes,
Au Pairs,
Khruangbin,
Scan 7,
Gang Starr,
Malaria!,
Leonard Cohen,
Nirvana,
Fela Kuti,
T. Rex,
Vainqueur,
The Star Department,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Soft Cell,
Bauhaus,
The Standells,
Throbbing Gristle,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Isaac Hayes,
Eddi Front,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kayak,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Knickerbockers,
Ice-T,
The Techniques,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tropical Tobacco,
Von Mondo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Robert Hood,
Amazonics,
Curtis Mayfield,
Neu!,
Avey Tare,
The Cure,
Anakelly,
The Misunderstood,
ABC,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.