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 Moldova and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes 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 Bobby Byrd to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Swans,
Faust,
Second Layer,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Funky Four + One,
Swell Maps,
Sun City Girls,
Soul Sonic Force,
Make Up,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eden Ahbez,
Soulsonic Force,
June of 44,
Panda Bear,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jawbox,
Bootsy Collins,
The Angels of Light,
Desert Stars,
Spoonie Gee,
Nick Fraelich,
Con Funk Shun,
Susan Cadogan,
The Litter,
Scott Walker,
Kool Moe Dee,
Chrome,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
kango's stein massive,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Avey Tare,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bobby Sherman,
Morten Harket,
Y Pants,
ABC,
Alice Coltrane,
The Durutti Column,
Blake Baxter,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Swans,
Oblivians,
Andrew Hill,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Cale,
Kurtis Blow,
The Star Department,
Eurythmics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Skatalites,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Television,
Flipper,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.