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 Spain and from Seoul.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Vladislav Delay to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Reuben Wilson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Absolute Body Control,
Boredoms,
Eric Dolphy,
The Smiths,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Severed Heads,
Barry Ungar,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Misunderstood,
Tres Demented,
Joey Negro,
Quando Quango,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rakim,
Television,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Stetsasonic,
Roxette,
Brick,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Index,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Crash Course in Science,
Robert Hood,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Detroit Cobras,
Curtis Mayfield,
Radiohead,
Banda Bassotti,
Saccharine Trust,
Grauzone,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Duran Duran,
The Doors,
The Beau Brummels,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Swans,
The Residents,
Joensuu 1685,
The Music Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hasil Adkins,
Arthur Verocai,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mission of Burma,
Jeff Lynne,
David Bowie,
Basic Channel,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Funkadelic,
David Axelrod,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Thompson Twins,
Barclay James Harvest,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Victims,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.