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 Rwanda and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 güiro 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 Lucky Dragons to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 American Breed. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 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 crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s 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 ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
X-Ray Spex,
Joey Negro,
Talk Talk,
Pagans,
Qualms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Görl,
Joyce Sims,
Rotary Connection,
Con Funk Shun,
Roxette,
Derrick May,
Wire,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Motions,
Anthony Braxton,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marc Almond,
Glenn Branca,
Rod Modell,
John Holt,
The Zeros,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Foxx,
Amazonics,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lightning Bolt,
Brothers Johnson,
Carl Craig,
Trumans Water,
Main Source,
Anakelly,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Prince Buster,
The Smiths,
Jeff Mills,
Eddi Front,
Accadde A,
LL Cool J,
Avey Tare,
New Order,
Idris Muhammad,
Silicon Teens,
Charles Mingus,
Todd Terry,
Jeff Lynne,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Spoonie Gee,
Animal Collective,
The Stooges,
Eric Copeland,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Howard Jones,
Hardrive,
Intrusion,
The Last Poets,
Soul II Soul,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.