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 Serbia and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lille.
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 Lou Reed 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 Gong to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Josef K,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jacob Miller,
Television Personalities,
Ultra Naté,
Aaron Thompson,
Icehouse,
Warren Ellis,
Half Japanese,
CMW,
Fluxion,
Zapp,
Ohio Players,
Ronan,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wolf Eyes,
Simply Red,
Crispy Ambulance,
Minnie Riperton,
Bobby Byrd,
Don Cherry,
Banda Bassotti,
Nick Fraelich,
Yaz,
The Barracudas,
Pantaleimon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
X-102,
Newcleus,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeff Mills,
FM Einheit,
B.T. Express,
Monks,
Cluster,
Eurythmics,
Harmonia,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mandrill,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Albert Ayler,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Drexciya,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Robert Hood,
The New Christs,
Lucky Dragons,
Alphaville,
Marine Girls,
Liliput,
Al Stewart,
Gabor Szabo,
Arcadia,
Sound Behaviour,
Das Ding,
Procol Harum,
Janne Schatter,
The Cowsills,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Amazonics,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.