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 Korea South and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 guitar 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 Nils Olav to the jazz 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 Eve St. Jones. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Warsaw,
Supertramp,
Jacob Miller,
Lakeside,
Scott Walker,
PIL,
Cheater Slicks,
The Zeros,
Newcleus,
Alison Limerick,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gregory Isaacs,
Infiniti,
Bluetip,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tim Buckley,
The Slackers,
10cc,
Eric B and Rakim,
Chrome,
Tubeway Army,
Cal Tjader,
Rekid,
The Litter,
Simply Red,
Joyce Sims,
Thee Headcoats,
Amazonics,
Pantytec,
Lou Christie,
E-Dancer,
Excepter,
Marc Almond,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Funkadelic,
Jandek,
Henry Cow,
Motorama,
Organ,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Swans,
Swell Maps,
Roy Ayers,
Interpol,
Boredoms,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Au Pairs,
Minnie Riperton,
Erasure,
Yusef Lateef,
The J.B.'s,
Suicide,
Derrick Morgan,
Neil Young,
Ronan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
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