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 Namibia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
Nico,
Isaac Hayes,
The Raincoats,
Sam Rivers,
Arthur Verocai,
Los Fastidios,
Tears for Fears,
Technova,
The Zeros,
Dennis Brown,
Idris Muhammad,
The Golliwogs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scion,
The Offenders,
Adolescents,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Last Poets,
Yusef Lateef,
Alice Coltrane,
John Cale,
Hot Snakes,
CMW,
Country Joe & The Fish,
World's Most,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sex Pistols,
Intrusion,
Yellowson,
The Martian,
Vladislav Delay,
Boz Scaggs,
Gang Green,
Funkadelic,
Goldenarms,
The Standells,
Johnny Clarke,
The Move,
Porter Ricks,
Michelle Simonal,
X-102,
Negative Approach,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Grauzone,
Heaven 17,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Moon,
Albert Ayler,
Dark Day,
Wolf Eyes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fela Kuti,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ludus,
Au Pairs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deakin,
Harmonia,
Nick Fraelich,
Barry Ungar,
Ice-T,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.