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 Yemen and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the disco 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Trumans Water,
Motorama,
The Moody Blues,
Brand Nubian,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Moby Grape,
Electric Prunes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Unwound,
Blancmange,
Desert Stars,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Wally Richardson,
Simply Red,
The Five Americans,
F. McDonald,
Bootsy Collins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Malaria!,
Spoonie Gee,
MC5,
Gil Scott Heron,
X-101,
David McCallum,
Susan Cadogan,
Graham Central Station,
Icehouse,
Andrew Hill,
Half Japanese,
Yusef Lateef,
Lucky Dragons,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Leaves,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric Dolphy,
Nick Fraelich,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Junior Murvin,
Pole,
Eyeless In Gaza,
New Order,
Lyres,
The Gap Band,
The Smoke,
Panda Bear,
Sight & Sound,
Magma,
Deepchord,
Interpol,
T.S.O.L.,
Stereo Dub,
Laurel Aitken,
Popol Vuh,
Mars,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.