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 China and from Lagos.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Second Layer to the dance 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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dennis Brown,
Groovy Waters,
The Neon Judgement,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Blancmange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Motorama,
Franke,
Youth Brigade,
AZ,
The Music Machine,
CMW,
The Fuzztones,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Smoke,
Alton Ellis,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Christie,
Rufus Thomas,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Roger Hodgson,
ABBA,
Steve Hackett,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Gap Band,
Half Japanese,
Dual Sessions,
Severed Heads,
Anthony Braxton,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Surgeon,
Iggy Pop,
Flash Fearless,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kurtis Blow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Human League,
The Fire Engines,
Ituana,
Soulsonic Force,
Harpers Bizarre,
Suburban Knight,
The Dirtbombs,
Chrome,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lucky Dragons,
The Techniques,
The Black Dice,
Aloha Tigers,
The Sonics,
the Human League,
The Gladiators,
Black Pus,
Desert Stars,
The New Christs,
Michelle Simonal,
Smog,
Shuggie Otis,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.