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 Qatar and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 New Age Steppers to the funk 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Accadde A,
Joe Smooth,
MDC,
Scan 7,
Terry Callier,
Joy Division,
Pole,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Blossom Toes,
Glenn Branca,
Ossler,
Subhumans,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eli Mardock,
The Human League,
Negative Approach,
Brand Nubian,
Gang of Four,
Matthew Bourne,
Blancmange,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Skaos,
Jeff Mills,
Johnny Clarke,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Maleditus Sound,
the Association,
Echospace,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Bar-Kays,
Maurizio,
Pulsallama,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cal Tjader,
The Mojo Men,
Oneida,
Reagan Youth,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brick,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hot Snakes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Goldenarms,
Joe Finger,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Piero Umiliani,
Essential Logic,
Shuggie Otis,
JFA,
Intrusion,
Jandek,
ABC,
Iggy Pop,
Lucky Dragons,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gang Starr,
Rufus Thomas,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.