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 France and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 London and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Pulsallama to the punk 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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Carl Craig,
Joe Smooth,
Lakeside,
Black Bananas,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Unwound,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Moebius,
Bobby Womack,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sonic Youth,
Faust,
Rosa Yemen,
Joey Negro,
Mad Mike,
Pantaleimon,
Boredoms,
The Happenings,
Amon Düül,
Scan 7,
Dark Day,
Terrestrial Tones,
Brothers Johnson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Barclay James Harvest,
Negative Approach,
Sister Nancy,
The Divine Comedy,
New Order,
Rites of Spring,
The Cowsills,
Liliput,
Lyres,
Derrick Morgan,
Siglo XX,
David Bowie,
Monks,
Rakim,
Chrome,
Amon Düül II,
Mr. Review,
Clear Light,
Soulsonic Force,
The J.B.'s,
Warsaw,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lalann,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marvin Gaye,
These Immortal Souls,
Freddie Wadling,
AZ,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
ABC,
Joensuu 1685,
Jimmy McGriff,
Connie Case,
The Pop Group,
The Associates,
Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy.
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.