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 Niger and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Calgary.
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 808 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 Minny Pops to the disco 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 Lou Reed & Metallica. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Kinks,
The Searchers,
Q and Not U,
A Certain Ratio,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lucky Dragons,
Kurtis Blow,
Camouflage,
The Monochrome Set,
Warsaw,
Nico,
Technova,
Sam Rivers,
In Retrospect,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joensuu 1685,
Mark Hollis,
Spoonie Gee,
Eli Mardock,
Chris & Cosey,
KRS-One,
MDC,
Newcleus,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Donny Hathaway,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gichy Dan,
Model 500,
Brass Construction,
The Moody Blues,
Quadrant,
Crispian St. Peters,
Barclay James Harvest,
Darondo,
Rapeman,
Popol Vuh,
Flash Fearless,
Frankie Knuckles,
James White and The Blacks,
Nirvana,
Kas Product,
Cameo,
DJ Sneak,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Das Ding,
The Young Rascals,
Ossler,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Matthew Halsall,
Rites of Spring,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.