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 Cape Verde and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the rap 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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
10cc,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Fugs,
La Düsseldorf,
The Fire Engines,
Outsiders,
T.S.O.L.,
Rufus Thomas,
The Smoke,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Music Machine,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Accadde A,
The Slackers,
Royal Trux,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Altered Images,
Oneida,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Groovy Waters,
Q65,
The Stooges,
Piero Umiliani,
Excepter,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mandrill,
Chris Corsano,
Eric Copeland,
The Velvet Underground,
Talk Talk,
Suburban Knight,
Stiv Bators,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Quantec,
The Beau Brummels,
X-102,
Camberwell Now,
Moby Grape,
Anthony Braxton,
Jawbox,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Dave Clark Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gories,
Inner City,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Selecter,
U.S. Maple,
Rapeman,
The Blues Magoos,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Skriet,
Joy Division,
Mo-Dettes,
the Germs,
Faraquet,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.