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 Liberia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Drexciya to the grunge 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jesper Dahlback,
Deakin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Minny Pops,
Soft Machine,
Boz Scaggs,
Lindisfarne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Moon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bush Tetras,
The Young Rascals,
Eden Ahbez,
The Remains,
La Düsseldorf,
Throbbing Gristle,
Parry Music,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Martian,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Icehouse,
The Misunderstood,
The Velvet Underground,
Soulsonic Force,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bobby Sherman,
Excepter,
the Slits,
Bad Manners,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Magma,
Public Enemy,
Alphaville,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
EPMD,
Jacob Miller,
Bang On A Can,
Skarface,
Gerry Rafferty,
Charles Mingus,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
MC5,
Cheater Slicks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Magazine,
The Move,
Marmalade,
H. Thieme,
Lyres,
James White and The Blacks,
Liliput,
The Seeds,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Stereo Dub,
the Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.