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 Paraguay and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Quadrant to the crunk 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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Stockholm Monsters,
Steve Hackett,
The Durutti Column,
Oneida,
Alison Limerick,
FM Einheit,
Von Mondo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fat Boys,
Judy Mowatt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
OOIOO,
Pantytec,
Darondo,
Joe Finger,
The Five Americans,
Outsiders,
Radio Birdman,
Silicon Teens,
Monolake,
Scan 7,
Alphaville,
Dual Sessions,
Minor Threat,
Make Up,
Quantec,
DJ Style,
Shuggie Otis,
The Stooges,
Ronan,
Peter & Gordon,
Davy DMX,
Animal Collective,
The Leaves,
Sexual Harrassment,
Grauzone,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mo-Dettes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Skarface,
Sun Ra,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Glenn Branca,
The Zeros,
Neu!,
kango's stein massive,
a-ha,
Swans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ponytail,
Carl Craig,
Eden Ahbez,
Bootsy Collins,
Eric B and Rakim,
Essential Logic,
Echospace,
Fatback Band,
The Smoke,
Harmonia,
T.S.O.L.,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soulsonic Force,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.