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 Ivory Coast and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Idris Muhammad,
Dennis Brown,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Delta 5,
Mantronix,
Los Fastidios,
Mo-Dettes,
10cc,
Donny Hathaway,
F. McDonald,
The Toasters,
The Names,
Goldenarms,
Skaos,
Crispian St. Peters,
Country Teasers,
Hasil Adkins,
L. Decosne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Josef K,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Alton Ellis,
Bang On A Can,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rapeman,
Hardrive,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cheater Slicks,
The Fortunes,
Tommy Roe,
Marmalade,
Desert Stars,
Suicide,
Gang of Four,
the Human League,
The Barracudas,
Severed Heads,
Delon & Dalcan,
Organ,
Laurel Aitken,
Massinfluence,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jandek,
Oneida,
Pere Ubu,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fall,
Sixth Finger,
JFA,
Terry Callier,
Brand Nubian,
Ituana,
The Remains,
Johnny Clarke,
John Cale,
Stiv Bators,
Maleditus Sound,
Quantec,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.