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 Syria and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Skaos to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
The Residents,
LL Cool J,
The Gladiators,
Alton Ellis,
Deepchord,
The Toasters,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Stooges,
Q65,
The Motions,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Human League,
Wolf Eyes,
Gabor Szabo,
Reagan Youth,
Freddie Wadling,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Skaos,
The Last Poets,
Mantronix,
Mr. Review,
the Association,
Ludus,
Kaleidoscope,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pantaleimon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sound Behaviour,
Moby Grape,
David Bowie,
The Angels of Light,
The Sound,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Excepter,
Robert Wyatt,
Whodini,
the Normal,
Swans,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Livin' Joy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dorothy Ashby,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
ABC,
Pantytec,
Franke,
Kas Product,
Soft Machine,
Khruangbin,
Outsiders,
H. Thieme,
R.M.O.,
Los Fastidios,
Pulsallama,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Prunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.