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 Venezuela and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 John Holt to the grime 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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Spandau Ballet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Chris & Cosey,
The Litter,
Sister Nancy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Warren Ellis,
Bad Manners,
Oneida,
Alice Coltrane,
Delta 5,
Jerry's Kids,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nas,
David McCallum,
Harry Pussy,
Urselle,
Dark Day,
Hot Snakes,
Cymande,
Warsaw,
Sonic Youth,
Crime,
kango's stein massive,
Infiniti,
The Misunderstood,
China Crisis,
Agitation Free,
The American Breed,
Fad Gadget,
Fat Boys,
Neu!,
JFA,
ABC,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lalo Schifrin,
Arab on Radar,
Theoretical Girls,
Thompson Twins,
Underground Resistance,
John Coltrane,
Harmonia,
The Remains,
AZ,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Moody Blues,
Al Stewart,
Girls At Our Best!,
Schoolly D,
Fugazi,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Blackbyrds,
Boz Scaggs,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Amazonics,
Skarface,
The Leaves,
Lakeside,
Circle Jerks,
Brass Construction,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.