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 Botswana and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Houston.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tremeloes to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Guru Guru,
Stetsasonic,
The Residents,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Donny Hathaway,
In Retrospect,
The Dave Clark Five,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Crime,
The Zeros,
Eurythmics,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mantronix,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Doobie Brothers,
Franke,
Shoche,
Neu!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Tom Boy,
Lindisfarne,
Wally Richardson,
Lou Reed,
The Invisible,
Altered Images,
Black Bananas,
Gang Gang Dance,
Tres Demented,
Blake Baxter,
MDC,
Surgeon,
Terry Callier,
Al Stewart,
Heaven 17,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Fire Engines,
The Barracudas,
Ralphi Rosario,
The New Christs,
Anakelly,
Saccharine Trust,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
China Crisis,
Fat Boys,
Yazoo,
The Gories,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bill Near,
Leonard Cohen,
Minutemen,
The Grass Roots,
Visage,
Reuben Wilson,
Brick,
DNA,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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.