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 Kosovo and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Wake to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fat Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Pere Ubu,
Peter & Gordon,
Altered Images,
New Order,
Groovy Waters,
Tim Buckley,
Los Fastidios,
The Remains,
Public Image Ltd.,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Piero Umiliani,
Ralphi Rosario,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Erykah Badu,
Dual Sessions,
Eli Mardock,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Howard Jones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Todd Terry,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tropical Tobacco,
Popol Vuh,
Lindisfarne,
Fela Kuti,
Morten Harket,
Eric Dolphy,
The Offenders,
Unwound,
Hashim,
The Cure,
Johnny Clarke,
Flash Fearless,
Massinfluence,
Josef K,
Zapp,
Ludus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The United States of America,
Radiohead,
Colin Newman,
Interpol,
Skarface,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Section 25,
Hardrive,
Arab on Radar,
Aaron Thompson,
a-ha,
Maleditus Sound,
Scion,
Nico,
Neil Young,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fatback Band,
Warsaw,
Jacques Brel,
The Birthday Party,
Technova,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.