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 Finland and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Maurizio to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Boz Scaggs,
David Axelrod,
The Birthday Party,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Freddie Wadling,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Mojo Men,
The Fortunes,
Slave,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Trumans Water,
FM Einheit,
Wolf Eyes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joyce Sims,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gastr Del Sol,
Delta 5,
Ponytail,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
F. McDonald,
Tom Boy,
Rotary Connection,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marvin Gaye,
DJ Style,
the Soft Cell,
Pharoah Sanders,
Newcleus,
Jeff Lynne,
Fugazi,
Blossom Toes,
Pet Shop Boys,
PIL,
Lucky Dragons,
Grandmaster Flash,
T.S.O.L.,
The United States of America,
Rakim,
The Slits,
Gang Green,
The Litter,
The Black Dice,
Talk Talk,
Pantaleimon,
Pierre Henry,
Dual Sessions,
New Age Steppers,
The Detroit Cobras,
Anakelly,
Bauhaus,
Gichy Dan,
The Residents,
Wally Richardson,
Pagans,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.