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 Estonia and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Sao Paulo.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Cluster to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T.S.O.L.,
Vladislav Delay,
Ponytail,
Amon Düül II,
Kayak,
Youth Brigade,
Brass Construction,
Ten City,
Ituana,
Spandau Ballet,
Eric Copeland,
Godley & Creme,
Maurizio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Davy DMX,
Audionom,
The Trojans,
The Stooges,
Blossom Toes,
Fatback Band,
The Black Dice,
Robert Wyatt,
Metal Thangz,
Carl Craig,
Jacques Brel,
Arab on Radar,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Barrington Levy,
Surgeon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
David Bowie,
Sister Nancy,
June of 44,
Delta 5,
Gichy Dan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nation of Ulysses,
Josef K,
Peter and Kerry,
Gang Starr,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Infiniti,
Ultra Naté,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wally Richardson,
Scratch Acid,
Thompson Twins,
Loose Ends,
Soulsonic Force,
The Electric Prunes,
Moebius,
Ronnie Foster,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Television,
Electric Prunes,
Toni Rubio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Donny Hathaway,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
X-Ray Spex,
Pagans,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.