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 Maldives 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 güiro 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 Fear to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Minnie Riperton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mark Hollis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jimmy McGriff,
Matthew Halsall,
Scientists,
Vladislav Delay,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
New York Dolls,
Echospace,
Radiohead,
Matthew Bourne,
Wings,
Zero Boys,
Stockholm Monsters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Model 500,
Alphaville,
Throbbing Gristle,
Little Man,
Ituana,
R.M.O.,
Public Enemy,
The Index,
The Cowsills,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Von Mondo,
Clear Light,
Idris Muhammad,
Mars,
Scott Walker,
Joe Finger,
Lyres,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Yellowson,
Bill Near,
Organ,
Nirvana,
Fad Gadget,
Scan 7,
Thee Headcoats,
Desert Stars,
Moss Icon,
Pole,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Moebius,
Theoretical Girls,
Franke,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Wake,
Todd Terry,
One Last Wish,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Joyce Sims,
The Real Kids,
Terry Callier,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.