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 India and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 AZ to the crunk 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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nils Olav,
Donny Hathaway,
Tres Demented,
Sun Ra,
Crash Course in Science,
The Trojans,
Yusef Lateef,
Rod Modell,
Faraquet,
Cybotron,
Cluster,
Main Source,
Motorama,
The Young Rascals,
the Normal,
Godley & Creme,
Wally Richardson,
Tim Buckley,
Bootsy Collins,
LL Cool J,
Eric Copeland,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Swans,
Moby Grape,
Wire,
Glenn Branca,
The Fortunes,
Easy Going,
Henry Cow,
The Pretty Things,
The Invisible,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Boredoms,
Ituana,
The Cramps,
The Moleskins,
Graham Central Station,
The Blackbyrds,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crispy Ambulance,
Nas,
Marshall Jefferson,
Warsaw,
Accadde A,
The Walker Brothers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Khruangbin,
The Mojo Men,
Jeff Lynne,
Icehouse,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sugar Minott,
Masters at Work,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bobby Byrd,
Leonard Cohen,
Talk Talk,
Jandek,
Drexciya,
Colin Newman,
Y Pants,
Rapeman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.