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 Fiji and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 10cc to the funk 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispian St. Peters,
Aswad,
Arthur Verocai,
Monolake,
Boz Scaggs,
The Cramps,
Urselle,
DJ Style,
Thompson Twins,
Country Teasers,
Whodini,
Joey Negro,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Average White Band,
Derrick May,
Echospace,
Reuben Wilson,
Max Romeo,
Excepter,
Parry Music,
Don Cherry,
Panda Bear,
Kevin Saunderson,
a-ha,
The Doobie Brothers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Vainqueur,
The Count Five,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bobby Womack,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soulsonic Force,
Oblivians,
Au Pairs,
New Order,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Byrd,
ABBA,
Quantec,
The Five Americans,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Yusef Lateef,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minor Threat,
Rosa Yemen,
Scion,
Peter & Gordon,
The Stooges,
Monks,
Lyres,
Stereo Dub,
Johnny Clarke,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Coltrane,
Donald Byrd,
Joensuu 1685,
The Busters,
kango's stein massive,
Piero Umiliani,
Anthony Braxton,
The Kinks,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.