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 Estonia and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the marimba 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 Gories to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Eric B and Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
The Sisters of Mercy,
U.S. Maple,
ABC,
Monolake,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Robert Görl,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Panda Bear,
Boredoms,
The Toasters,
Liliput,
Gabor Szabo,
Royal Trux,
Drexciya,
Marine Girls,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dawn Penn,
Barry Ungar,
Black Flag,
Shoche,
Nick Fraelich,
Wings,
Roxy Music,
Magazine,
Swell Maps,
Pulsallama,
Yusef Lateef,
E-Dancer,
One Last Wish,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sonic Youth,
Michelle Simonal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
DJ Sneak,
Freddie Wadling,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lyres,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Victims,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Misunderstood,
Jacques Brel,
Dark Day,
Tomorrow,
Joy Division,
Pussy Galore,
The Blackbyrds,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dead Boys,
Alice Coltrane,
Harmonia,
Fugazi,
The Fortunes,
John Holt,
The Motions,
New York Dolls,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.