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 Guyana and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Absolute Body Control to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Toasters,
Saccharine Trust,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Blackbyrds,
World's Most,
Erykah Badu,
Essential Logic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eve St. Jones,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Soft Cell,
Sound Behaviour,
Flash Fearless,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Knickerbockers,
Procol Harum,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Harry Pussy,
The Skatalites,
Deadbeat,
Minnie Riperton,
Joy Division,
Yusef Lateef,
Lightning Bolt,
Infiniti,
Fugazi,
The Trojans,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bad Manners,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lou Reed,
Eurythmics,
Quantec,
Jandek,
Yaz,
Joyce Sims,
Eli Mardock,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gabor Szabo,
Amazonics,
Wally Richardson,
Adolescents,
Eden Ahbez,
Faraquet,
Carl Craig,
The Standells,
Freddie Wadling,
Sandy B,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soul Sonic Force,
Popol Vuh,
the Bar-Kays,
Chris Corsano,
Drexciya,
Bauhaus,
Second Layer,
Lalann,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.