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 Lithuania and from Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin 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 John Coltrane to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Metal Thangz,
The Searchers,
Warsaw,
Jeff Mills,
Minny Pops,
Fluxion,
T.S.O.L.,
Sällskapet,
Eddi Front,
Throbbing Gristle,
Section 25,
Ralphi Rosario,
Stetsasonic,
The Blues Magoos,
Crispy Ambulance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Visage,
The Fugs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gil Scott Heron,
Minutemen,
La Düsseldorf,
Gang Starr,
The Shadows of Knight,
Flash Fearless,
Au Pairs,
Cecil Taylor,
Sam Rivers,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Trojans,
Aaron Thompson,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Motions,
The Young Rascals,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
FM Einheit,
Pantaleimon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wally Richardson,
Ultravox,
The Divine Comedy,
10cc,
Intrusion,
Peter and Kerry,
Reagan Youth,
Crime,
The Raincoats,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Flag,
Q and Not U,
Severed Heads,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Tres Demented,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
K-Klass,
ABBA,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.