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 Kenya and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 mellotron 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 Crash Course in Science to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nils Olav,
The Human League,
Deadbeat,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eli Mardock,
AZ,
Babytalk,
Excepter,
Monolake,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lou Christie,
Smog,
John Foxx,
The Gap Band,
X-102,
Metal Thangz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minutemen,
The Happenings,
Bauhaus,
The Move,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Vainqueur,
Chris Corsano,
The Music Machine,
Ash Ra Tempel,
MDC,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Stooges,
Lebanon Hanover,
ABC,
Fad Gadget,
Kerri Chandler,
Zapp,
Echospace,
The Litter,
Subhumans,
Fugazi,
Gang of Four,
The Detroit Cobras,
Livin' Joy,
Radio Birdman,
the Soft Cell,
Juan Atkins,
World's Most,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Amon Düül II,
Crispy Ambulance,
The New Christs,
Tears for Fears,
Ponytail,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pharoah Sanders,
Flipper,
Isaac Hayes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bush Tetras,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Moss Icon,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.