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 Cuba and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Blake Baxter to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Standells. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Bowie,
The Cure,
Danielle Patucci,
Visage,
Lyres,
Banda Bassotti,
Flipper,
Electric Prunes,
These Immortal Souls,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Cramps,
Camouflage,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crooked Eye,
Heaven 17,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bang On A Can,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Connie Case,
Arcadia,
Lucky Dragons,
Wire,
Pere Ubu,
Swell Maps,
Joy Division,
Little Man,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
AZ,
Peter and Kerry,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Durutti Column,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tubeway Army,
Curtis Mayfield,
Section 25,
Mars,
Thee Headcoats,
The Associates,
The Pretty Things,
Fluxion,
Sonic Youth,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
KRS-One,
Harmonia,
Cal Tjader,
Drexciya,
Sparks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Junior Murvin,
David Axelrod,
Jandek,
Black Pus,
Wally Richardson,
Flash Fearless,
Gang Gang Dance,
New Order,
Ten City,
CMW,
Glambeats Corp.,
Royal Trux,
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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.