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 Bahrain and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kas Product to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gories. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Graham Central Station,
Scrapy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Curtis Mayfield,
Panda Bear,
The Offenders,
Unwound,
Outsiders,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jacques Brel,
Qualms,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Fortunes,
The Raincoats,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ponytail,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Slits,
Lou Reed,
The Techniques,
Alphaville,
Spandau Ballet,
Roxette,
The Young Rascals,
Lower 48,
Junior Murvin,
KRS-One,
Symarip,
Sonic Youth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Goldenarms,
Kenny Larkin,
London Community Gospel Choir,
DJ Sneak,
Angry Samoans,
Mission of Burma,
X-Ray Spex,
Morten Harket,
Neil Young,
The Associates,
The Saints,
Ice-T,
Sound Behaviour,
The Selecter,
Matthew Halsall,
the Fania All-Stars,
Maleditus Sound,
Dual Sessions,
The Fuzztones,
Crash Course in Science,
Barry Ungar,
Kurtis Blow,
Excepter,
Janne Schatter,
Wolf Eyes,
Au Pairs,
The Smoke,
kango's stein massive,
Chris Corsano,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.