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 Bulgaria and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 spring reverb 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 The Fugs to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb 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 clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
the Swans,
The Shadows of Knight,
Blossom Toes,
Stiv Bators,
The Leaves,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Residents,
Audionom,
Jawbox,
John Foxx,
Parry Music,
Zero Boys,
The Trojans,
Eric Dolphy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Max Romeo,
Amon Düül II,
Negative Approach,
Tres Demented,
The Techniques,
Man Eating Sloth,
Wally Richardson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Unrelated Segments,
Davy DMX,
Crooked Eye,
David Axelrod,
Fear,
Bad Manners,
Scrapy,
Aaron Thompson,
Gabor Szabo,
Urselle,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Can,
Scott Walker,
Franke,
FM Einheit,
The Index,
Warsaw,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Fania All-Stars,
Derrick May,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
DJ Sneak,
David Bowie,
The Cure,
Camouflage,
The New Christs,
Graham Central Station,
Alphaville,
The Divine Comedy,
Todd Rundgren,
Rod Modell,
Scion,
Eric Copeland,
Roger Hodgson,
John Coltrane,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Juan Atkins,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.