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 Poland and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Lou Reed 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 D'Angelo to the jazz 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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Monolake,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kas Product,
The Names,
Jesper Dahlback,
David McCallum,
B.T. Express,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Parry Music,
Whodini,
Mo-Dettes,
Don Cherry,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Von Mondo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Cecil Taylor,
The Seeds,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Velvet Underground,
Leonard Cohen,
Oblivians,
Skaos,
The Move,
Bluetip,
Soft Machine,
Minny Pops,
The Motions,
cv313,
The Angels of Light,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Barracudas,
David Axelrod,
Barry Ungar,
Infiniti,
Negative Approach,
Archie Shepp,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Deakin,
Procol Harum,
Radio Birdman,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fugazi,
Rekid,
Gang of Four,
Soulsonic Force,
Erykah Badu,
Joe Smooth,
Ituana,
Rotary Connection,
Saccharine Trust,
Susan Cadogan,
Quando Quango,
Throbbing Gristle,
Faust,
Sugar Minott,
The Vogues,
Chris Corsano,
The Detroit Cobras,
Amazonics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.