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 Tajikistan and from Calgary.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bob Dylan to the grime 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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spandau Ballet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Yazoo,
Prince Buster,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dawn Penn,
World's Most,
Outsiders,
Pantytec,
Fear,
Procol Harum,
Lindisfarne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Amazonics,
The Cowsills,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Massinfluence,
Harmonia,
Roy Ayers,
The Cure,
Swell Maps,
Black Bananas,
Delon & Dalcan,
MC5,
10cc,
John Cale,
Livin' Joy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Pretty Things,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
cv313,
Bobby Sherman,
The Slackers,
Dave Gahan,
Cal Tjader,
Vladislav Delay,
Babytalk,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Echospace,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Maleditus Sound,
X-102,
The Fall,
Minor Threat,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Bar-Kays,
Rapeman,
Boogie Down Productions,
One Last Wish,
Stiv Bators,
Rites of Spring,
Lyres,
Sex Pistols,
Bill Wells,
Main Source,
Moby Grape,
Deakin,
Ronnie Foster,
Glenn Branca,
Basic Channel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.