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 Nigeria and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Stetsasonic,
Todd Rundgren,
Oneida,
Nils Olav,
The Move,
Sun Ra,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Doors,
The Knickerbockers,
Flipper,
F. McDonald,
Terrestrial Tones,
Amon Düül II,
Blake Baxter,
Basic Channel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Raincoats,
Supertramp,
The Gap Band,
Stereo Dub,
Todd Terry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Public Enemy,
John Foxx,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kas Product,
Nation of Ulysses,
Soul II Soul,
X-101,
This Heat,
The Music Machine,
Jacques Brel,
Roy Ayers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wally Richardson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fuzztones,
Moss Icon,
Boredoms,
Swans,
Skarface,
David Bowie,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Excepter,
Mantronix,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pretty Things,
Schoolly D,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ultra Naté,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Animal Collective,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kaleidoscope,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.