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 Libya and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Swans to the funk 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Pylon,
Schoolly D,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Standells,
Mission of Burma,
Adolescents,
Joensuu 1685,
Avey Tare,
Outsiders,
Stetsasonic,
Scan 7,
H. Thieme,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Davy DMX,
10cc,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Basic Channel,
Gabor Szabo,
Cheater Slicks,
Vainqueur,
OOIOO,
Flash Fearless,
Fear,
World's Most,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scratch Acid,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Agent Orange,
The Associates,
Spandau Ballet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Accadde A,
Grauzone,
Con Funk Shun,
Reuben Wilson,
The Blackbyrds,
The United States of America,
DJ Style,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Deakin,
Sarah Menescal,
The Monochrome Set,
The Raincoats,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Visage,
Traffic Nightmare,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Shuggie Otis,
Make Up,
Gang Green,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David McCallum,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bob Dylan,
Pharoah Sanders,
Monolake,
Jacques Brel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Barracudas,
Icehouse,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.