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 Ethiopia 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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 arpeggiator 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
The Vogues,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Goldenarms,
Sugar Minott,
Iggy Pop,
Al Stewart,
Brick,
Bobby Womack,
Michelle Simonal,
Cecil Taylor,
Wire,
Stetsasonic,
Easy Going,
Main Source,
Slave,
ABC,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Joyce Sims,
E-Dancer,
Barbara Tucker,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Durutti Column,
Rufus Thomas,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Half Japanese,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Matthew Halsall,
Skarface,
Moss Icon,
The Busters,
La Düsseldorf,
Schoolly D,
Barry Ungar,
Second Layer,
Flipper,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dark Day,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skaos,
The Young Rascals,
Technova,
Patti Smith,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crime,
The Raincoats,
Black Moon,
The Standells,
Lalann,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Amon Düül II,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Searchers,
Banda Bassotti,
kango's stein massive,
Soulsonic Force,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.