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 Kosovo and from Hong Kong.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 harpsichord 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wolf Eyes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Cal Tjader,
DNA,
Swans,
June of 44,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eli Mardock,
Das Ding,
Maurizio,
D'Angelo,
Slave,
Fad Gadget,
kango's stein massive,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Crime,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oblivians,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Mo-Dettes,
Scan 7,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Human League,
Faust,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Y Pants,
Bobby Byrd,
Ultra Naté,
Sound Behaviour,
The Leaves,
Carl Craig,
Siglo XX,
Accadde A,
The Kinks,
the Germs,
Eddi Front,
Gong,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wally Richardson,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Selecter,
Chris Corsano,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sexual Harrassment,
Au Pairs,
Sun City Girls,
Isaac Hayes,
Ossler,
DJ Sneak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zapp,
Wolf Eyes,
The Standells,
Bill Wells,
Rosa Yemen,
Kevin Saunderson,
Qualms,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.