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 Togo and from London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin 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 Can to the jazz 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Joensuu 1685,
Inner City,
Letta Mbulu,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Schoolly D,
The Names,
Black Pus,
Rhythm & Sound,
Janne Schatter,
Mary Jane Girls,
Silicon Teens,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ludus,
Black Sheep,
Piero Umiliani,
Deakin,
Gang of Four,
Oneida,
Bang On A Can,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Agitation Free,
Crash Course in Science,
Derrick May,
Q and Not U,
Clear Light,
The Dave Clark Five,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Khruangbin,
Fatback Band,
The Smoke,
Funky Four + One,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Mojo Men,
The Fire Engines,
Neu!,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Boogie Down Productions,
Absolute Body Control,
Althea and Donna,
The Doors,
Loose Ends,
the Association,
Stereo Dub,
Michelle Simonal,
Sarah Menescal,
Motorama,
Peter & Gordon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Vainqueur,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nik Kershaw,
Nation of Ulysses,
Moss Icon,
Nirvana,
Ornette Coleman,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mantronix,
Public Image Ltd.,
Neil Young,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.