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 Slovakia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Tokyo and Paris.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Yusef Lateef to the crunk 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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
Reuben Wilson,
Depeche Mode,
The Invisible,
Gang Gang Dance,
Althea and Donna,
Rhythm & Sound,
Arcadia,
Vladislav Delay,
Popol Vuh,
Gastr Del Sol,
London Community Gospel Choir,
K-Klass,
Dennis Brown,
Mandrill,
Aaron Thompson,
Pantytec,
Neil Young,
Leonard Cohen,
Bootsy Collins,
EPMD,
The Names,
Television,
Mars,
The Dave Clark Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alphaville,
Lyres,
Sonic Youth,
The Velvet Underground,
Minor Threat,
10cc,
Nils Olav,
June Days,
Porter Ricks,
Vainqueur,
Eric Dolphy,
the Germs,
Nirvana,
the Normal,
Freddie Wadling,
Fluxion,
Grey Daturas,
Swell Maps,
Morten Harket,
Al Stewart,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Drexciya,
Mary Jane Girls,
Procol Harum,
The Mummies,
The Sound,
Kaleidoscope,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Kinks,
Joey Negro,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wolf Eyes,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.