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 Belarus and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radio Birdman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Sight & Sound,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Techniques,
Bobby Sherman,
The Standells,
Gregory Isaacs,
Easy Going,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pole,
The Monochrome Set,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Lydon,
the Normal,
Mars,
Yaz,
Porter Ricks,
Alton Ellis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Andrew Hill,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tropical Tobacco,
Deakin,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Talk Talk,
Fugazi,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
China Crisis,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roger Hodgson,
Ronnie Foster,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Selecter,
Amon Düül,
Minor Threat,
Arthur Verocai,
Archie Shepp,
The Neon Judgement,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eric Copeland,
Whodini,
The Grass Roots,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Divine Comedy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ten City,
The Five Americans,
Faraquet,
Dark Day,
Wolf Eyes,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Skaos,
Vladislav Delay,
Tomorrow,
Brothers Johnson,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.