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 Ghana and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Surgeon to the dance 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Kaleidoscope,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Surgeon,
Anthony Braxton,
Scientists,
Television Personalities,
Todd Rundgren,
Yusef Lateef,
Crooked Eye,
Barclay James Harvest,
Neu!,
Rotary Connection,
The Grass Roots,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eric B and Rakim,
This Heat,
Yazoo,
Pussy Galore,
Smog,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Niagra,
Audionom,
Andrew Hill,
Circle Jerks,
Traffic Nightmare,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jandek,
Anakelly,
Slave,
X-101,
Underground Resistance,
Althea and Donna,
The Divine Comedy,
Banda Bassotti,
Depeche Mode,
Suicide,
The Dead C,
The Moody Blues,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Wally Richardson,
Sex Pistols,
cv313,
These Immortal Souls,
Rufus Thomas,
The Gladiators,
Moebius,
Index,
Guru Guru,
Maurizio,
Joensuu 1685,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hardrive,
Crime,
Bronski Beat,
The Vogues,
Ponytail,
The Young Rascals,
Nico,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.