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 Solomon Islands and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the rock 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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Scratch Acid,
Bizarre Inc.,
Yaz,
Talk Talk,
The Smoke,
Dual Sessions,
Echospace,
Bluetip,
Ultravox,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eric Dolphy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Icehouse,
Tubeway Army,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dennis Brown,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bobby Womack,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Wake,
Gang Gang Dance,
Young Marble Giants,
Crash Course in Science,
Barry Ungar,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Electric Prunes,
Magma,
Nik Kershaw,
Joe Finger,
the Normal,
Severed Heads,
The Velvet Underground,
Prince Buster,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Funkadelic,
Josef K,
Youth Brigade,
The Residents,
Fat Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Cure,
The Count Five,
Fela Kuti,
Reuben Wilson,
Slick Rick,
Michelle Simonal,
Chris & Cosey,
Whodini,
The J.B.'s,
Erasure,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Kinks,
Jacques Brel,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Traffic Nightmare,
DNA,
Underground Resistance,
the Bar-Kays,
Morten Harket,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.