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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 Calgary and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron 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 Pantaleimon 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Dave Clark Five,
Soul II Soul,
Fatback Band,
The Star Department,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Urselle,
The Walker Brothers,
Lou Reed,
Derrick May,
Ponytail,
The Beau Brummels,
The Leaves,
Faust,
Junior Murvin,
Terry Callier,
Stockholm Monsters,
D'Angelo,
Panda Bear,
Letta Mbulu,
Joensuu 1685,
Sexual Harrassment,
MDC,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Moleskins,
The Selecter,
the Normal,
Cybotron,
Simply Red,
Ossler,
The Stooges,
Spoonie Gee,
Gang Gang Dance,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
David McCallum,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Derrick Morgan,
Piero Umiliani,
Joe Smooth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boredoms,
The Gun Club,
Fat Boys,
Bobby Byrd,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ronan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sex Pistols,
Crooked Eye,
Yusef Lateef,
Nils Olav,
World's Most,
Surgeon,
The Slits,
Hashim,
The Neon Judgement,
Radiohead,
Negative Approach,
Television Personalities,
Scan 7,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.