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 Mauritania and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin 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 CMW to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nico,
Massinfluence,
Gichy Dan,
L. Decosne,
Essential Logic,
Jacques Brel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
June Days,
Erasure,
Hashim,
Ronnie Foster,
Henry Cow,
Kas Product,
Nick Fraelich,
Peter and Kerry,
The Count Five,
The Walker Brothers,
Marvin Gaye,
Roger Hodgson,
Siglo XX,
Ice-T,
The Knickerbockers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kerrie Biddell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Albert Ayler,
Aloha Tigers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Carl Craig,
Boredoms,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eric Dolphy,
Brass Construction,
Royal Trux,
Electric Prunes,
The Stooges,
K-Klass,
Monolake,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Shadows of Knight,
Stockholm Monsters,
ABBA,
Banda Bassotti,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Andrew Hill,
The Move,
ABC,
The Red Krayola,
Fear,
Newcleus,
Soulsonic Force,
Davy DMX,
Index,
Public Image Ltd.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Idris Muhammad,
a-ha,
Cybotron,
the Swans,
Los Fastidios,
Unwound, Unwound, Unwound, Unwound.
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.