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 Luxembourg and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 D'Angelo to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 48th St. Collective. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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?
Mission of Burma,
Eddi Front,
Grandmaster Flash,
Hot Snakes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sonic Youth,
Brothers Johnson,
Donny Hathaway,
The Stooges,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Icehouse,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Funkadelic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Seeds,
Index,
Peter and Kerry,
Monolake,
the Normal,
the Association,
Joey Negro,
Soulsonic Force,
Buzzcocks,
Pantytec,
Mr. Review,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Raincoats,
Radiohead,
Erasure,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nico,
Smog,
the Bar-Kays,
Terry Callier,
Johnny Clarke,
Desert Stars,
Unrelated Segments,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Glenn Branca,
Jawbox,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Mojo Men,
The Monks,
Supertramp,
Tomorrow,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Barrington Levy,
Bob Dylan,
Essential Logic,
kango's stein massive,
Toni Rubio,
Jandek,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ultra Naté,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Gap Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sällskapet,
Fela Kuti,
The Leaves,
The Buckinghams,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.