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 Iran and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the crunk 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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Patti Smith,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Prince Buster,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Monochrome Set,
Clear Light,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Moleskins,
The Velvet Underground,
Siglo XX,
Angry Samoans,
Pussy Galore,
Lalann,
Fluxion,
The Doors,
a-ha,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dennis Brown,
Spandau Ballet,
Sonny Sharrock,
Iggy Pop,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sight & Sound,
Reagan Youth,
Swans,
The Moody Blues,
Main Source,
The Last Poets,
Minutemen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gories,
Sarah Menescal,
Bootsy Collins,
Rod Modell,
The Angels of Light,
Icehouse,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Toasters,
Tomorrow,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Man Parrish,
Vainqueur,
Neil Young,
Dark Day,
Au Pairs,
PIL,
Fela Kuti,
The Skatalites,
Kayak,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tom Boy,
The Slits,
Deakin,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.