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 Honduras and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 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 Girls At Our Best! to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
The Move,
10cc,
Sarah Menescal,
The Pop Group,
Boogie Down Productions,
Young Marble Giants,
Guru Guru,
Half Japanese,
Minny Pops,
Crooked Eye,
Ronan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Animal Collective,
The Moody Blues,
Parry Music,
The Remains,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Prince Buster,
Can,
Magma,
Sister Nancy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Byron Stingily,
Pantaleimon,
Drexciya,
Sight & Sound,
Godley & Creme,
Rotary Connection,
The Fortunes,
Index,
Amon Düül,
Gastr Del Sol,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Radiohead,
DJ Style,
Intrusion,
Lightning Bolt,
John Lydon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Toni Rubio,
Organ,
The Cowsills,
Marcia Griffiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter and Kerry,
The Durutti Column,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Shadows of Knight,
PIL,
Khruangbin,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Five Americans,
Sam Rivers,
Agitation Free,
The Pretty Things,
The Standells,
Scott Walker,
Boredoms,
Barry Ungar,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.