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 Ireland and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
Joensuu 1685,
Ice-T,
Scott Walker,
Sight & Sound,
Grey Daturas,
Matthew Halsall,
Lalann,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Glenn Branca,
Second Layer,
Black Flag,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pierre Henry,
The Neon Judgement,
Joey Negro,
Mission of Burma,
Marcia Griffiths,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Magma,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jerry's Kids,
The Fortunes,
Silicon Teens,
Brand Nubian,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Smoke,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sugar Minott,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fluxion,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fela Kuti,
Prince Buster,
Skarface,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Inner City,
Television Personalities,
Zapp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bob Dylan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roy Ayers,
Ludus,
Leonard Cohen,
Jawbox,
The Selecter,
Aswad,
Shuggie Otis,
The Gun Club,
Tommy Roe,
The Offenders,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.