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 China and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Flipper to the rock 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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Glenn Branca,
Magma,
Young Marble Giants,
Scion,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Donald Byrd,
Bootsy Collins,
The Barracudas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nas,
Quantec,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Crispy Ambulance,
Neil Young,
The Knickerbockers,
The Motions,
Blake Baxter,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Royal Trux,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
FM Einheit,
Angry Samoans,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bobby Byrd,
Jeff Mills,
Au Pairs,
Arab on Radar,
Donny Hathaway,
Sister Nancy,
Faraquet,
Marine Girls,
Marmalade,
The Dirtbombs,
Masters at Work,
OOIOO,
Cecil Taylor,
Ornette Coleman,
Crispian St. Peters,
Brand Nubian,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sandy B,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
ABC,
U.S. Maple,
Q and Not U,
Joey Negro,
Matthew Halsall,
Duran Duran,
David Axelrod,
Vladislav Delay,
Oneida,
Juan Atkins,
Gang Starr,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jandek,
John Coltrane,
The Buckinghams,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.