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 Mexico and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Hardrive,
Glenn Branca,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Kinks,
Kas Product,
Vladislav Delay,
Amon Düül,
The Skatalites,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hoover,
One Last Wish,
Fluxion,
In Retrospect,
Jandek,
Soft Machine,
Dual Sessions,
MDC,
Hasil Adkins,
Swans,
Trumans Water,
Saccharine Trust,
Gichy Dan,
The Techniques,
Freddie Wadling,
Monks,
New Order,
Bad Manners,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Music Machine,
K-Klass,
Negative Approach,
Jeff Mills,
Charles Mingus,
The Litter,
the Soft Cell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ronnie Foster,
Sun Ra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Underground Resistance,
Erasure,
Heaven 17,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Johnny Clarke,
Von Mondo,
Radio Birdman,
Accadde A,
Don Cherry,
Gregory Isaacs,
Buzzcocks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Erykah Badu,
Average White Band,
World's Most,
David Bowie,
Tears for Fears,
Panda Bear,
Crash Course in Science,
The Mummies,
The Selecter,
CMW,
Donny Hathaway,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.