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 Czech Republic and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Grass Roots to the grunge 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Lyres,
Essential Logic,
The Leaves,
Alison Limerick,
Basic Channel,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yazoo,
Swell Maps,
the Slits,
Laurel Aitken,
Mr. Review,
Icehouse,
The Stooges,
Rufus Thomas,
John Foxx,
Terrestrial Tones,
Q and Not U,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Archie Shepp,
Interpol,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joe Smooth,
The Mojo Men,
Derrick May,
Danielle Patucci,
Lakeside,
Hoover,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nirvana,
Brass Construction,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Move,
June of 44,
Fat Boys,
Graham Central Station,
Malaria!,
D'Angelo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jacob Miller,
Eric Dolphy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Alton Ellis,
Faraquet,
World's Most,
Von Mondo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Shuggie Otis,
Cheater Slicks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dark Day,
Desert Stars,
F. McDonald,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Heaven 17,
Lower 48,
Derrick Morgan,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.