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 Antigua and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Second Layer to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Aural Exciters,
Kenny Larkin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Sheep,
Henry Cow,
Sly & The Family Stone,
World's Most,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pet Shop Boys,
Niagra,
Lower 48,
In Retrospect,
Crooked Eye,
Drexciya,
Panda Bear,
Lou Reed,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Laurel Aitken,
Skaos,
R.M.O.,
Scott Walker,
Rekid,
Duran Duran,
Lungfish,
Pagans,
Boz Scaggs,
Agent Orange,
Thee Headcoats,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Circle Jerks,
Cluster,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Roy Ayers,
Tim Buckley,
Urselle,
Colin Newman,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bronski Beat,
Section 25,
Nick Fraelich,
Hardrive,
Oneida,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ronnie Foster,
T. Rex,
Mission of Burma,
Jerry's Kids,
Sister Nancy,
Mars,
Massinfluence,
Royal Trux,
The Doobie Brothers,
Khruangbin,
Zapp,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.