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 Hungary and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe 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 The Dave Clark Five to the funk 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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
The Knickerbockers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pierre Henry,
The Pretty Things,
In Retrospect,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Yazoo,
Eli Mardock,
Eric Copeland,
Fad Gadget,
Ornette Coleman,
Brand Nubian,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mark Hollis,
Tommy Roe,
The Busters,
Livin' Joy,
The Martian,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Swans,
Animal Collective,
Frankie Knuckles,
L. Decosne,
Kayak,
the Normal,
Big Daddy Kane,
A Certain Ratio,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mars,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Camberwell Now,
Colin Newman,
Rakim,
Main Source,
Gil Scott Heron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fluxion,
The Dirtbombs,
Sonny Sharrock,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Second Layer,
Quantec,
Glenn Branca,
Eddi Front,
John Holt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Buckinghams,
Buzzcocks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Zero Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The United States of America,
Liliput,
The Happenings,
The Monochrome Set,
Deepchord,
John Coltrane,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marmalade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.