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 Qatar and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 ABC to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Toni Rubio,
Deepchord,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hardrive,
The Blues Magoos,
The Monks,
Young Marble Giants,
Smog,
Nation of Ulysses,
Traffic Nightmare,
Royal Trux,
Zero Boys,
Lalo Schifrin,
Alice Coltrane,
Josef K,
Deadbeat,
Soft Cell,
The Fall,
The Cramps,
Japan,
Aural Exciters,
Pere Ubu,
Freddie Wadling,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Radiohead,
Marine Girls,
Unwound,
Alison Limerick,
Crash Course in Science,
Rekid,
The Black Dice,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dead Boys,
Easy Going,
Tomorrow,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Associates,
MDC,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rosa Yemen,
Nas,
JFA,
Robert Hood,
The Monochrome Set,
Oneida,
The Blackbyrds,
Simply Red,
Ludus,
DJ Sneak,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Susan Cadogan,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Michelle Simonal,
10cc,
Joe Smooth,
8 Eyed Spy,
Donald Byrd,
Cluster,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.