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 El Salvador and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Stereo Dub to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Dennis Brown,
Jeff Mills,
Aloha Tigers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Audionom,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Happenings,
Scan 7,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Japan,
Boogie Down Productions,
AZ,
Grandmaster Flash,
Young Marble Giants,
The Real Kids,
Bad Manners,
Sugar Minott,
Max Romeo,
John Holt,
Massinfluence,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Lydon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Invisible,
The Trojans,
The Gories,
the Bar-Kays,
Leonard Cohen,
Judy Mowatt,
Patti Smith,
Babytalk,
The Grass Roots,
The Shadows of Knight,
Glambeats Corp.,
Camouflage,
Eurythmics,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Germs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gang of Four,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Basic Channel,
Shuggie Otis,
Glenn Branca,
Soft Machine,
Sister Nancy,
Rakim,
Arab on Radar,
Alice Coltrane,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Blues Magoos,
Tropical Tobacco,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Das Ding,
Joey Negro,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Con Funk Shun,
Intrusion,
Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon.
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.