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 Maldives and from Edmonton.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mars to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Big Daddy Kane 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Yaz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dennis Brown,
Flamin' Groovies,
Todd Rundgren,
The Vogues,
Flash Fearless,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Brass Construction,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Happenings,
Pylon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
New Age Steppers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dual Sessions,
Gregory Isaacs,
Donny Hathaway,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pulsallama,
Vainqueur,
Quando Quango,
Make Up,
Iggy Pop,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lalann,
Ken Boothe,
Kevin Saunderson,
Interpol,
Sugar Minott,
The Count Five,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kerri Chandler,
Wolf Eyes,
The Slackers,
Niagra,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kas Product,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Buckinghams,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Durutti Column,
Average White Band,
Blake Baxter,
Agent Orange,
Joyce Sims,
Tropical Tobacco,
Graham Central Station,
kango's stein massive,
Thompson Twins,
Camberwell Now,
Crash Course in Science,
The Five Americans,
Gichy Dan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Idris Muhammad,
Oblivians,
Pantaleimon,
The Saints,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.