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 Malta and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Robert Palmer 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 Groovy Waters to the crunk 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Thompson Twins,
Moebius,
Icehouse,
Youth Brigade,
Joensuu 1685,
Henry Cow,
Minutemen,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Skriet,
The Fugs,
The Angels of Light,
Jawbox,
Cameo,
Bob Dylan,
the Swans,
Soulsonic Force,
Depeche Mode,
In Retrospect,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bluetip,
Roxette,
Sarah Menescal,
Eve St. Jones,
Sixth Finger,
Sister Nancy,
Deakin,
Pantaleimon,
Piero Umiliani,
The Grass Roots,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Second Layer,
Sugar Minott,
Lightning Bolt,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Faust,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Negative Approach,
The Evens,
Ralphi Rosario,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Dual Sessions,
Donald Byrd,
Agitation Free,
Black Flag,
The Pretty Things,
Sam Rivers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Heaven 17,
Ossler,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brick,
The Sonics,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.