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 Burkina and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 David Axelrod to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Main Source,
The Sonics,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dennis Brown,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
John Coltrane,
The Techniques,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ossler,
Cymande,
Kenny Larkin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Guru Guru,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Au Pairs,
Electric Prunes,
Hoover,
James White and The Blacks,
Newcleus,
Camouflage,
The Sound,
Con Funk Shun,
R.M.O.,
Scientists,
Eden Ahbez,
Mad Mike,
Quando Quango,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Desert Stars,
Sun Ra,
Echospace,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sandy B,
Accadde A,
Juan Atkins,
The Knickerbockers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dead Boys,
Half Japanese,
Scion,
F. McDonald,
Pylon,
Mission of Burma,
The Standells,
Gang Green,
Grey Daturas,
Subhumans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Youth Brigade,
The Invisible,
Rotary Connection,
Brick,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Skarface,
X-102,
T.S.O.L.,
Altered Images, Altered Images, Altered Images, Altered Images.
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.