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 Israel and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 linndrum 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 Cecil Taylor to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Grey Daturas,
Tom Boy,
Swell Maps,
Theoretical Girls,
Arcadia,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Unrelated Segments,
Neu!,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Moody Blues,
Andrew Hill,
Ossler,
Janne Schatter,
The Slackers,
The United States of America,
X-101,
Flipper,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dawn Penn,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Black Flag,
The Skatalites,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Derrick Morgan,
Jesper Dahlback,
R.M.O.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Evens,
The Doors,
Underground Resistance,
Cybotron,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Popol Vuh,
Reagan Youth,
FM Einheit,
Aural Exciters,
Pole,
Con Funk Shun,
Sonic Youth,
The Remains,
Minutemen,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Mummies,
Arab on Radar,
Brass Construction,
DJ Style,
Tomorrow,
Anakelly,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yellowson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Quando Quango,
Crash Course in Science,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ludus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Archie Shepp,
The Moleskins,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.