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 Malawi and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rekid to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Soulsonic Force,
The Slackers,
Gang of Four,
Shuggie Otis,
Erykah Badu,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Unwound,
Faraquet,
Pulsallama,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pierre Henry,
Television Personalities,
Audionom,
The Detroit Cobras,
Soft Machine,
The Beau Brummels,
Barrington Levy,
The Gladiators,
Liliput,
John Coltrane,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wire,
Freddie Wadling,
Index,
The Smoke,
Michelle Simonal,
Johnny Clarke,
Wally Richardson,
Harry Pussy,
Sugar Minott,
Josef K,
T. Rex,
The Standells,
Ultra Naté,
Make Up,
Stiv Bators,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dead Boys,
Soul II Soul,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rotary Connection,
Albert Ayler,
The Moody Blues,
Neu!,
Intrusion,
Roxy Music,
Bill Wells,
The Electric Prunes,
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Bootsy Collins,
Sarah Menescal,
Kerrie Biddell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Malaria!,
Groovy Waters,
Motorama,
the Swans,
MDC,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.