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 Dominica and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Guru Guru 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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heaven 17,
Make Up,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eric Copeland,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
DJ Sneak,
Andrew Hill,
Dawn Penn,
Ohio Players,
Clear Light,
Black Flag,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tears for Fears,
Toni Rubio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Moebius,
David McCallum,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eden Ahbez,
UT,
The Last Poets,
Lucky Dragons,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Guru Guru,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dead Boys,
Ultravox,
Jeff Mills,
Pulsallama,
Cheater Slicks,
The Slits,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
MC5,
Aswad,
Nas,
Technova,
Negative Approach,
Lalann,
Jerry's Kids,
E-Dancer,
Pierre Henry,
Alton Ellis,
Bootsy Collins,
Brand Nubian,
Rosa Yemen,
Mantronix,
Gregory Isaacs,
Minny Pops,
The Gun Club,
World's Most,
The Five Americans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare,
Monks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Audionom,
Althea and Donna,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Unrelated Segments,
Oneida,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.