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 Mauritania and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Joe Smooth to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
The Toasters,
DJ Style,
Buzzcocks,
The Monks,
Eric Copeland,
Harmonia,
Kerrie Biddell,
Chris & Cosey,
The Blackbyrds,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alton Ellis,
Fad Gadget,
Fugazi,
The Last Poets,
Easy Going,
Neil Young,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nik Kershaw,
Sun City Girls,
The Martian,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
R.M.O.,
Ten City,
Supertramp,
L. Decosne,
The Offenders,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jawbox,
The Fire Engines,
The Mummies,
Animal Collective,
T. Rex,
Masters at Work,
Television,
The Black Dice,
Nas,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Black Flag,
Suicide,
Ituana,
Brand Nubian,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Sherman,
PIL,
Liliput,
Brick,
Wolf Eyes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Crime,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Trojans,
Accadde A,
K-Klass,
Eddi Front,
The Velvet Underground,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Spoonie Gee,
Youth Brigade,
Sparks,
Skriet,
Little Man,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.