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 Colombia and from London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 linndrum 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Angry Samoans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
Section 25,
Buzzcocks,
Black Flag,
Rosa Yemen,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Carl Craig,
Brothers Johnson,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Slackers,
Crooked Eye,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Circle Jerks,
Desert Stars,
Albert Ayler,
Fad Gadget,
Bang On A Can,
Make Up,
Beasts of Bourbon,
D'Angelo,
In Retrospect,
John Cale,
Dual Sessions,
Electric Prunes,
K-Klass,
Intrusion,
Leonard Cohen,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sonic Youth,
Lucky Dragons,
The Alarm Clocks,
Avey Tare,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sandy B,
Mandrill,
Nick Fraelich,
X-Ray Spex,
Yazoo,
Bobby Sherman,
Icehouse,
Todd Terry,
Underground Resistance,
Derrick Morgan,
Erykah Badu,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ultra Naté,
Wings,
Half Japanese,
The Doobie Brothers,
Wolf Eyes,
Cecil Taylor,
John Coltrane,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lou Reed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.