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 United Kingdom and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jerry's Kids to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Slits. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Siglo XX,
The Raincoats,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Babytalk,
Man Parrish,
Japan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Desert Stars,
Charles Mingus,
Talk Talk,
Animal Collective,
Black Bananas,
Iggy Pop,
Connie Case,
The Tremeloes,
Zapp,
Arthur Verocai,
Marmalade,
Suburban Knight,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sound Behaviour,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Thee Headcoats,
Bad Manners,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Symarip,
Flipper,
Lucky Dragons,
a-ha,
Bootsy Collins,
Infiniti,
Donald Byrd,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Durutti Column,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Avey Tare,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Walker Brothers,
ABBA,
CMW,
The Sonics,
Crime,
Neu!,
Scientists,
Johnny Clarke,
Amazonics,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tres Demented,
Theoretical Girls,
Jerry's Kids,
Dennis Brown,
The Monochrome Set,
Trumans Water,
Bang On A Can,
Grauzone,
Fugazi,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lungfish,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.