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 Somalia and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Leonard Cohen to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Fort Wilson Riot tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Bizarre Inc.,
Simply Red,
Alphaville,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Janne Schatter,
Dorothy Ashby,
Agitation Free,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gang of Four,
The Searchers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ultimate Spinach,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Charles Mingus,
Marcia Griffiths,
Crime,
Darondo,
X-102,
Reuben Wilson,
The Gories,
Rufus Thomas,
Half Japanese,
Wally Richardson,
Groovy Waters,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Procol Harum,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sound Behaviour,
Maleditus Sound,
T. Rex,
Flipper,
The Monks,
Arab on Radar,
Tommy Roe,
Gabor Szabo,
Rod Modell,
Rekid,
Section 25,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Quantec,
Mars,
X-Ray Spex,
X-101,
Deadbeat,
Metal Thangz,
The Happenings,
Peter & Gordon,
Scott Walker,
The Sound,
Crash Course in Science,
Depeche Mode,
Theoretical Girls,
Negative Approach,
Public Image Ltd.,
Von Mondo,
Cybotron,
Moss Icon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.