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 Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the rock 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Essential Logic,
Von Mondo,
Accadde A,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cluster,
Stereo Dub,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Durutti Column,
Sällskapet,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joyce Sims,
Oblivians,
The Young Rascals,
Black Bananas,
Kerrie Biddell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Grauzone,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Buzzcocks,
Slick Rick,
Crash Course in Science,
Simply Red,
Drive Like Jehu,
Porter Ricks,
Prince Buster,
The Pop Group,
Jimmy McGriff,
In Retrospect,
the Human League,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dave Gahan,
La Düsseldorf,
Echospace,
T.S.O.L.,
Wolf Eyes,
Duran Duran,
Eden Ahbez,
Warren Ellis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joy Division,
The Red Krayola,
Donald Byrd,
Excepter,
Thee Headcoats,
The Gun Club,
Derrick Morgan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Freddie Wadling,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Darondo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Johnny Osbourne,
Henry Cow,
Pantaleimon,
Lower 48,
Albert Ayler,
The Smoke,
Connie Case,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Evens,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.