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 Italy and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 sitar 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 Grandmaster Flash to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
Radio Birdman,
The Motions,
Joensuu 1685,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Angry Samoans,
Dark Day,
June Days,
Rosa Yemen,
Clear Light,
The Smiths,
June of 44,
The Standells,
The Seeds,
Brick,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kool Moe Dee,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Delta 5,
Lindisfarne,
Lucky Dragons,
The Techniques,
Harmonia,
Connie Case,
Eurythmics,
Smog,
Sister Nancy,
Young Marble Giants,
Eric Dolphy,
Liliput,
Swell Maps,
The Saints,
Peter & Gordon,
Niagra,
The Cowsills,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Barracudas,
Sound Behaviour,
Sun Ra,
Roxette,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pylon,
Rod Modell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soul II Soul,
Colin Newman,
Anthony Braxton,
Dennis Brown,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Davy DMX,
Outsiders,
Amon Düül,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Little Man,
The New Christs,
Tropical Tobacco,
Hardrive,
Shuggie Otis,
Marvin Gaye,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.