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 Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba 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 Delon & Dalcan to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All The Gladiators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Skarface,
Gabor Szabo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Surgeon,
The Pop Group,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scientists,
Bobby Sherman,
Swell Maps,
Dark Day,
Danielle Patucci,
Infiniti,
Lucky Dragons,
Howard Jones,
Easy Going,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boz Scaggs,
Marvin Gaye,
The Walker Brothers,
Sonic Youth,
Japan,
Warren Ellis,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Animal Collective,
Tom Boy,
Zapp,
Ralphi Rosario,
Leonard Cohen,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eurythmics,
Brand Nubian,
This Heat,
The Saints,
The Barracudas,
The Black Dice,
Guru Guru,
Smog,
Aloha Tigers,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Normal,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Patti Smith,
Aswad,
The Standells,
Rhythm & Sound,
Archie Shepp,
Pierre Henry,
Cluster,
Scan 7,
David Bowie,
Donny Hathaway,
Kool Moe Dee,
Erykah Badu,
Siglo XX,
Freddie Wadling,
Camberwell Now,
Sex Pistols,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.