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 Iceland and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
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 guitar 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 Minnie Riperton to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
The Busters,
Steve Hackett,
China Crisis,
Sound Behaviour,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Q and Not U,
Kaleidoscope,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soul Sonic Force,
Donny Hathaway,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Arthur Verocai,
DJ Sneak,
Chrome,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Model 500,
Magma,
Lou Reed,
Tommy Roe,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Smiths,
The Raincoats,
John Foxx,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Shuggie Otis,
Lyres,
Arcadia,
A Certain Ratio,
Ralphi Rosario,
Letta Mbulu,
Reagan Youth,
Soulsonic Force,
Pere Ubu,
Hasil Adkins,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Country Teasers,
Guru Guru,
Lou Christie,
Intrusion,
Amon Düül II,
Aswad,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Newcleus,
New Order,
Bobby Byrd,
Television,
Sight & Sound,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Angry Samoans,
Sun Ra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Searchers,
Johnny Clarke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yellowson,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.