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 Oman and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Basic Channel to the grime 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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Saints,
Delta 5,
Arthur Verocai,
Moss Icon,
Los Fastidios,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Amon Düül II,
Echospace,
Cymande,
Harmonia,
Gichy Dan,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Birthday Party,
Eurythmics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Donny Hathaway,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Liliput,
Rosa Yemen,
Unrelated Segments,
The Evens,
kango's stein massive,
Jeff Mills,
Gong,
The Cramps,
These Immortal Souls,
The Human League,
The Misunderstood,
Swell Maps,
Kaleidoscope,
Faust,
The Zeros,
Minny Pops,
The Five Americans,
Grey Daturas,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Dead C,
Banda Bassotti,
CMW,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drive Like Jehu,
Metal Thangz,
Spoonie Gee,
Minutemen,
DJ Sneak,
a-ha,
The Pretty Things,
The Dirtbombs,
The Sound,
Anthony Braxton,
JFA,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Susan Cadogan,
Dennis Brown,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Quando Quango,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Walker Brothers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.