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 Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soulsonic Force to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
cv313,
The Vogues,
Essential Logic,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Offenders,
The Fugs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Skarface,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Byrd,
H. Thieme,
Icehouse,
The Barracudas,
Sexual Harrassment,
FM Einheit,
Don Cherry,
Loose Ends,
The Neon Judgement,
CMW,
X-102,
PIL,
Reuben Wilson,
Bobby Womack,
Eve St. Jones,
Skaos,
Heaven 17,
Television Personalities,
The Monochrome Set,
The Invisible,
John Coltrane,
Monolake,
Magazine,
Quadrant,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Walker Brothers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Robert Hood,
The Birthday Party,
Fatback Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Yaz,
The Motions,
T. Rex,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Monks,
The Sonics,
48th St. Collective,
Electric Prunes,
Ten City,
Fela Kuti,
Moebius,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Qualms,
Radio Birdman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Grass Roots,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Visage,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Trojans,
Roger Hodgson,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.