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 Iraq and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Yellowson to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Au Pairs,
Matthew Halsall,
AZ,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Fortunes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Henry Cow,
Harpers Bizarre,
Visage,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra,
Infiniti,
Intrusion,
The Star Department,
Flash Fearless,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Brothers Johnson,
Half Japanese,
Von Mondo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scott Walker,
The Toasters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Skarface,
The Walker Brothers,
Chris Corsano,
Thompson Twins,
Chrome,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Prince Buster,
The Vogues,
Fad Gadget,
Barrington Levy,
Ten City,
Tubeway Army,
Moss Icon,
Schoolly D,
The Modern Lovers,
cv313,
Funky Four + One,
The Shadows of Knight,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lyres,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Cowsills,
The Red Krayola,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Wolf Eyes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pierre Henry,
Terry Callier,
Rites of Spring,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Slits,
Monolake,
Kevin Saunderson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.