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 Angola and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Can to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Moon,
the Germs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Eurythmics,
The Music Machine,
Vainqueur,
The Barracudas,
Minor Threat,
Toni Rubio,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Funkadelic,
Fatback Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neil Young,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
John Cale,
Livin' Joy,
New Age Steppers,
Vladislav Delay,
Rod Modell,
Reuben Wilson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Sonics,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Agent Orange,
The Busters,
Bootsy Collins,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Dead C,
Camouflage,
The Human League,
The Searchers,
the Association,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Drexciya,
Patti Smith,
Mantronix,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Quantec,
The Moody Blues,
Angry Samoans,
Wire,
Altered Images,
Motorama,
Chrome,
Model 500,
Tomorrow,
U.S. Maple,
Andrew Hill,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Remains,
Adolescents,
Khruangbin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Grandmaster Flash,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.