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 Bahamas and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Liaisons Dangereuses to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Angry Samoans,
8 Eyed Spy,
PIL,
Nick Fraelich,
Procol Harum,
Con Funk Shun,
Tomorrow,
The Dave Clark Five,
Newcleus,
Mad Mike,
Essential Logic,
Erasure,
Underground Resistance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Suburban Knight,
Hot Snakes,
Arthur Verocai,
The Cowsills,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New York Dolls,
The J.B.'s,
Wasted Youth,
David McCallum,
Warren Ellis,
Terrestrial Tones,
Accadde A,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ultra Naté,
The Move,
John Holt,
Urselle,
Minny Pops,
Scott Walker,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
the Slits,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Loose Ends,
Nils Olav,
Livin' Joy,
The Neon Judgement,
Arcadia,
Rapeman,
The Victims,
Piero Umiliani,
Pagans,
MC5,
The Grass Roots,
Ituana,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alton Ellis,
Mandrill,
Aswad,
Dual Sessions,
Joe Finger,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Normal,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.