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 Marshall Islands and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 mellotron 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 The Motions to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All The Last Poets tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Vladislav Delay,
Eden Ahbez,
Model 500,
Idris Muhammad,
Metal Thangz,
Zero Boys,
Amon Düül II,
Quantec,
Gil Scott Heron,
Niagra,
U.S. Maple,
the Sonics,
Ohio Players,
Das Ding,
Brass Construction,
Electric Prunes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ken Boothe,
The Gap Band,
Mark Hollis,
Popol Vuh,
The Techniques,
Monolake,
Ornette Coleman,
Peter and Kerry,
Cluster,
The Standells,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sixth Finger,
Deadbeat,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Deakin,
The Move,
These Immortal Souls,
Television,
Man Parrish,
Blossom Toes,
Slick Rick,
DNA,
Sound Behaviour,
Howard Jones,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Funky Four + One,
Chris Corsano,
Lebanon Hanover,
Qualms,
Dead Boys,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
David McCallum,
Swans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moby Grape,
The Young Rascals,
Siglo XX,
Dual Sessions,
The Moody Blues,
Pantytec,
Mantronix,
The Count Five,
The Stooges,
Lalo Schifrin,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.