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 Iceland and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bauhaus to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Sound Behaviour,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Todd Rundgren,
Donald Byrd,
Archie Shepp,
The Standells,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Yazoo,
Unwound,
Rakim,
The Divine Comedy,
Albert Ayler,
Black Moon,
The New Christs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Desert Stars,
Davy DMX,
Goldenarms,
David Bowie,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül II,
Fat Boys,
Rufus Thomas,
Das Ding,
Wire,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Kinks,
Eve St. Jones,
U.S. Maple,
Rosa Yemen,
Connie Case,
Big Daddy Kane,
Suburban Knight,
Bobby Sherman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Skriet,
DNA,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pierre Henry,
Blake Baxter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Circle Jerks,
Cecil Taylor,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Sound,
Eddi Front,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Saints,
Oneida,
The Birthday Party,
Guru Guru,
Cybotron,
Mantronix,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Swans,
Tomorrow,
Y Pants,
Jacob Miller,
The Last Poets,
La Düsseldorf,
Hashim,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.