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 Croatia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Glasgow.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Alison Limerick to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wolf Eyes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Television Personalities,
Sällskapet,
Scan 7,
Urselle,
Liliput,
cv313,
The Skatalites,
The Motions,
Model 500,
Marvin Gaye,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yusef Lateef,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gabor Szabo,
Joensuu 1685,
Fear,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ossler,
Camouflage,
Andrew Hill,
Supertramp,
Althea and Donna,
A Flock of Seagulls,
June of 44,
Essential Logic,
Dave Gahan,
Camberwell Now,
Grey Daturas,
JFA,
Crash Course in Science,
Eden Ahbez,
Shuggie Otis,
X-Ray Spex,
Chris & Cosey,
Eric Dolphy,
Technova,
Gong,
Scratch Acid,
Franke,
Morten Harket,
The Happenings,
Laurel Aitken,
Lindisfarne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kerri Chandler,
Bad Manners,
Warren Ellis,
Echospace,
Ice-T,
E-Dancer,
Flash Fearless,
Pole,
Inner City,
Bluetip,
Rhythm & Sound,
Au Pairs,
Minnie Riperton,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.