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 Croatia and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pantytec to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Sugar Minott,
Chris & Cosey,
The Offenders,
Little Man,
Schoolly D,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tom Boy,
World's Most,
Peter & Gordon,
Judy Mowatt,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Velvet Underground,
Dual Sessions,
Country Teasers,
Average White Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
OOIOO,
Clear Light,
Angry Samoans,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jacques Brel,
Rites of Spring,
Albert Ayler,
Khruangbin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Golliwogs,
Alice Coltrane,
Loose Ends,
Joensuu 1685,
The Techniques,
Amon Düül II,
The Pop Group,
Nirvana,
Cal Tjader,
10cc,
Ohio Players,
Outsiders,
Yaz,
Rekid,
Dark Day,
Swans,
Supertramp,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Barry Ungar,
Symarip,
Kevin Saunderson,
Maleditus Sound,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Flesh Eaters,
Minny Pops,
Altered Images,
New Order,
Roxette,
Accadde A,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.