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 Uganda and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Jakarta.
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 harpsichord 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 H. Thieme to the techno 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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '70s 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 Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marshall Jefferson,
D'Angelo,
Harmonia,
Procol Harum,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Marcia Griffiths,
MC5,
Black Bananas,
Excepter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sight & Sound,
Kool Moe Dee,
Basic Channel,
Black Moon,
Alton Ellis,
Severed Heads,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cal Tjader,
London Community Gospel Choir,
David Axelrod,
Cluster,
Rakim,
the Association,
Q65,
Lindisfarne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mantronix,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Magazine,
Quantec,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lightning Bolt,
The Toasters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fire Engines,
The Fugs,
Isaac Hayes,
Brothers Johnson,
Neil Young,
Bluetip,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bad Manners,
Rosa Yemen,
Radiohead,
Drive Like Jehu,
Clear Light,
The Move,
Marmalade,
Zapp,
Andrew Hill,
Scan 7,
Underground Resistance,
Bootsy Collins,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nik Kershaw,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
10cc,
The Neon Judgement,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.