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 Seychelles and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 marimba 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 The Dirtbombs to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Rosa Yemen,
Fad Gadget,
Vladislav Delay,
Main Source,
Lou Reed,
Das Ding,
The Shadows of Knight,
Japan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bob Dylan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Silicon Teens,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rekid,
Al Stewart,
Alton Ellis,
Audionom,
Nik Kershaw,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Spandau Ballet,
Warsaw,
Gichy Dan,
EPMD,
Jeff Mills,
Supertramp,
La Düsseldorf,
Adolescents,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mantronix,
Ornette Coleman,
Robert Hood,
Nico,
Camouflage,
PIL,
Funky Four + One,
Grauzone,
Scientists,
Mandrill,
Kas Product,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Niagra,
Country Teasers,
Section 25,
Suburban Knight,
Desert Stars,
Black Sheep,
Hashim,
Warren Ellis,
Technova,
The Wake,
The Residents,
Pulsallama,
Bobby Byrd,
Neil Young,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Moby Grape,
The Zeros,
Throbbing Gristle,
Heaven 17,
The Associates,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.