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 Colombia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 linndrum 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 Soul Sonic Force to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Fugazi,
Magma,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Crash Course in Science,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nico,
James White and The Blacks,
Dave Gahan,
Tim Buckley,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Intrusion,
Moss Icon,
Mad Mike,
Swell Maps,
Derrick Morgan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Theoretical Girls,
Vladislav Delay,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Peter and Kerry,
Heaven 17,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Chris & Cosey,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Panda Bear,
Quando Quango,
The Techniques,
Mars,
the Normal,
Television,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Sonics,
Hashim,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare,
Wally Richardson,
Icehouse,
Fatback Band,
Jerry's Kids,
Joyce Sims,
The Mummies,
Ornette Coleman,
Mandrill,
Nick Fraelich,
The Neon Judgement,
Minutemen,
the Germs,
EPMD,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobby Sherman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dark Day,
Essential Logic,
Cluster,
Amon Düül II,
The Last Poets,
The Trojans,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Flag,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.