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 Serbia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the jazz 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oppenheimer Analysis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Juan Atkins,
Scott Walker,
Davy DMX,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
La Düsseldorf,
Young Marble Giants,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Duran Duran,
The Sound,
Mark Hollis,
Reuben Wilson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Inner City,
Dennis Brown,
Neu!,
Masters at Work,
The Gun Club,
A Certain Ratio,
R.M.O.,
Clear Light,
Moss Icon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Average White Band,
The Techniques,
F. McDonald,
Morten Harket,
Terry Callier,
Pulsallama,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Popol Vuh,
The Smoke,
Barclay James Harvest,
One Last Wish,
Mandrill,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sonic Youth,
Cluster,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
David Axelrod,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kas Product,
Panda Bear,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Swans,
Echospace,
Oblivians,
Ornette Coleman,
Isaac Hayes,
Erykah Badu,
Marc Almond,
Moby Grape,
the Fania All-Stars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The New Christs,
Index,
Hardrive,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.