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 Rwanda and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Toronto.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Camouflage to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
New Order,
Soft Machine,
Dual Sessions,
The Tremeloes,
Maurizio,
Ponytail,
Jacques Brel,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Alphaville,
Ken Boothe,
Pussy Galore,
Amon Düül II,
Zapp,
The Slits,
One Last Wish,
Infiniti,
The Misunderstood,
Boz Scaggs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Erasure,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sam Rivers,
Mantronix,
Kenny Larkin,
Ohio Players,
Groovy Waters,
Morten Harket,
L. Decosne,
Metal Thangz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Stereo Dub,
Bootsy Collins,
Erykah Badu,
Ten City,
Archie Shepp,
Chris & Cosey,
The Monochrome Set,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Stooges,
Eddi Front,
Tim Buckley,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camouflage,
The Fuzztones,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sight & Sound,
Underground Resistance,
LL Cool J,
Johnny Clarke,
In Retrospect,
Ornette Coleman,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Monks,
X-Ray Spex,
Rod Modell,
Max Romeo,
Anthony Braxton,
Roxy Music,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.