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 Panama and from Woodstock.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Yellowson to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
Fifty Foot Hose,
John Foxx,
The Blackbyrds,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Big Daddy Kane,
Yusef Lateef,
Shoche,
Shuggie Otis,
Tom Boy,
The Tremeloes,
Idris Muhammad,
Minor Threat,
Country Teasers,
Funky Four + One,
Icehouse,
Supertramp,
Masters at Work,
Youth Brigade,
Duran Duran,
Skriet,
The Golliwogs,
Yaz,
the Human League,
Lou Christie,
Cymande,
Kas Product,
The Barracudas,
The Fugs,
Japan,
Tears for Fears,
Jacob Miller,
Sight & Sound,
Alice Coltrane,
K-Klass,
Tomorrow,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Smoke,
Darondo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Radiopuhelimet,
Television,
the Sonics,
Excepter,
Lalann,
The Human League,
Banda Bassotti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Junior Murvin,
Lou Reed,
The Gories,
Radiohead,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mr. Review,
Eric Dolphy,
Gong,
Young Marble Giants,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.