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 Spain and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Divine Comedy to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
The United States of America,
Drive Like Jehu,
Massinfluence,
Animal Collective,
Eric Dolphy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ossler,
Sugar Minott,
Second Layer,
Ituana,
Vladislav Delay,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lightning Bolt,
Sparks,
Nico,
R.M.O.,
Joey Negro,
Mars,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Names,
Absolute Body Control,
Flash Fearless,
Cybotron,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soul II Soul,
Moss Icon,
Youth Brigade,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kerri Chandler,
Blancmange,
Wally Richardson,
The Black Dice,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Blues Magoos,
Sight & Sound,
Sun Ra,
Judy Mowatt,
Scion,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Moebius,
Terry Callier,
Loose Ends,
Maleditus Sound,
Public Image Ltd.,
Malaria!,
The Durutti Column,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Camberwell Now,
Grandmaster Flash,
Black Sheep,
Jerry's Kids,
The Monks,
Cecil Taylor,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Scan 7,
Warren Ellis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.