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 Belize and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ten City to the rap 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
The Dirtbombs,
The Offenders,
Throbbing Gristle,
Marshall Jefferson,
Brass Construction,
Jesper Dahlback,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Al Stewart,
Nation of Ulysses,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Matthew Halsall,
Davy DMX,
The Modern Lovers,
Saccharine Trust,
Dual Sessions,
Circle Jerks,
Scrapy,
Erykah Badu,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Arcadia,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Litter,
FM Einheit,
The Barracudas,
The Happenings,
The Sound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fad Gadget,
Ultravox,
Peter and Kerry,
Unrelated Segments,
Chrome,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nirvana,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ronan,
Albert Ayler,
Soft Cell,
The American Breed,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Residents,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Roxette,
Terry Callier,
Fear,
Prince Buster,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The New Christs,
Whodini,
Glenn Branca,
Sonic Youth,
Moss Icon,
Rotary Connection,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Smiths,
Boredoms,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.