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 East Timor and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kerri Chandler to the jazz 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid 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?
Warsaw,
Warren Ellis,
Schoolly D,
Michelle Simonal,
Country Teasers,
Monolake,
Arthur Verocai,
Marc Almond,
Junior Murvin,
Theoretical Girls,
Skarface,
X-Ray Spex,
Dennis Brown,
Yellowson,
Rufus Thomas,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Maurizio,
Suicide,
The Shadows of Knight,
Avey Tare,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Seeds,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rhythm & Sound,
Khruangbin,
Japan,
Sällskapet,
Bush Tetras,
Soft Machine,
The Gun Club,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
AZ,
Rekid,
Moby Grape,
CMW,
Blake Baxter,
Swell Maps,
Lou Reed,
Saccharine Trust,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Swans,
Animal Collective,
Jawbox,
Steve Hackett,
Brand Nubian,
The Slackers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Neon Judgement,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Minutemen,
Anthony Braxton,
The Sonics,
The Pretty Things,
Bauhaus,
Danielle Patucci,
Kaleidoscope,
Slick Rick,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.