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 Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the crunk 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Flesh Eaters,
In Retrospect,
MC5,
Gang of Four,
Jacques Brel,
Sonic Youth,
the Germs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Matthew Halsall,
Los Fastidios,
Pantaleimon,
Vladislav Delay,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mark Hollis,
Popol Vuh,
Animal Collective,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stiv Bators,
Joy Division,
Tres Demented,
Man Parrish,
Glenn Branca,
Reuben Wilson,
Thompson Twins,
Soft Machine,
OOIOO,
Little Man,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Franke,
MDC,
David Axelrod,
Loose Ends,
Lou Christie,
Symarip,
Audionom,
Sun Ra,
Black Moon,
The Neon Judgement,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Max Romeo,
Goldenarms,
Kas Product,
La Düsseldorf,
Drive Like Jehu,
Guru Guru,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lakeside,
Ronnie Foster,
John Lydon,
E-Dancer,
The Blackbyrds,
Warren Ellis,
Essential Logic,
Leonard Cohen,
Yazoo,
The Barracudas,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Cramps,
Lightning Bolt,
Groovy Waters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.