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 Chad and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 Throbbing Gristle to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Hot Snakes,
Michelle Simonal,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Flag,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Stiv Bators,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Talk Talk,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Marshall Jefferson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Red Krayola,
The American Breed,
Tomorrow,
Negative Approach,
Hoover,
CMW,
Index,
The Motions,
The Trojans,
Traffic Nightmare,
Franke,
Rosa Yemen,
Amon Düül,
Saccharine Trust,
The Electric Prunes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eli Mardock,
Todd Terry,
Marmalade,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nik Kershaw,
Wire,
Skaos,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Con Funk Shun,
Deepchord,
Public Enemy,
John Coltrane,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scion,
The J.B.'s,
F. McDonald,
T.S.O.L.,
The Litter,
Simply Red,
Sam Rivers,
Guru Guru,
Amon Düül II,
Letta Mbulu,
Dennis Brown,
Ornette Coleman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Godley & Creme,
Circle Jerks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Crash Course in Science,
Chris & Cosey,
Pantytec,
Ken Boothe,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.