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 Mongolia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Hong Kong and Bremen.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare 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 Kings Of Tomorrow to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Young Marble Giants,
Terry Callier,
Michelle Simonal,
Joyce Sims,
Duran Duran,
Monolake,
Kerri Chandler,
Babytalk,
the Association,
Interpol,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Hardrive,
Blake Baxter,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Wake,
Lower 48,
Fluxion,
The Pop Group,
World's Most,
Animal Collective,
Clear Light,
Y Pants,
The Zeros,
Faraquet,
Henry Cow,
The Monochrome Set,
Graham Central Station,
The Divine Comedy,
Yazoo,
Erykah Badu,
Agent Orange,
Ronnie Foster,
Dave Gahan,
Saccharine Trust,
Agitation Free,
Zero Boys,
Gang Green,
Scion,
The Remains,
Kool Moe Dee,
48th St. Collective,
Girls At Our Best!,
Country Teasers,
Motorama,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bob Dylan,
Davy DMX,
Rapeman,
Jawbox,
Reuben Wilson,
Rites of Spring,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Von Mondo,
Black Sheep,
Kaleidoscope,
Barbara Tucker,
Soulsonic Force,
Scrapy,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.