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 St Lucia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Don Cherry to the rock 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Motions,
The Blackbyrds,
Drive Like Jehu,
Anakelly,
Peter and Kerry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ronnie Foster,
The Dirtbombs,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ponytail,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Traffic Nightmare,
Parry Music,
Glenn Branca,
Liliput,
the Human League,
The Mummies,
The Monochrome Set,
Schoolly D,
The Angels of Light,
Khruangbin,
Joey Negro,
Carl Craig,
Underground Resistance,
Hoover,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cecil Taylor,
Amon Düül,
Pere Ubu,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eden Ahbez,
Reuben Wilson,
Anthony Braxton,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Godley & Creme,
Pulsallama,
Graham Central Station,
Jacques Brel,
Yazoo,
Isaac Hayes,
Amazonics,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Standells,
Skaos,
Connie Case,
Marcia Griffiths,
Boz Scaggs,
Sun Ra,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Visage,
Davy DMX,
Nas,
Max Romeo,
Black Moon,
The New Christs,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.