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 Libya and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 cv313 to the grunge 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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Jerry's Kids,
Can,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sällskapet,
Ten City,
The Knickerbockers,
June Days,
Banda Bassotti,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soul Sonic Force,
Faraquet,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Royal Trux,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sun City Girls,
Kool Moe Dee,
Funky Four + One,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tom Boy,
Minny Pops,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kenny Larkin,
Khruangbin,
Tomorrow,
Barbara Tucker,
Kurtis Blow,
Boogie Down Productions,
In Retrospect,
Trumans Water,
Amon Düül,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Sound,
Pharoah Sanders,
Warren Ellis,
The Sonics,
Black Bananas,
Harry Pussy,
Bill Wells,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tim Buckley,
Mandrill,
Shuggie Otis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Blossom Toes,
Scan 7,
Qualms,
The Golliwogs,
Eve St. Jones,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Minor Threat,
Essential Logic,
Rakim,
The Index,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sixth Finger,
LL Cool J,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.