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 Grenada and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Siglo XX to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Amon Düül,
Black Pus,
The Cramps,
Skaos,
The Buckinghams,
Erasure,
Nirvana,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Standells,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Wake,
Metal Thangz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ronan,
Eric Dolphy,
The Moody Blues,
Thompson Twins,
The J.B.'s,
Wolf Eyes,
Bobby Womack,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marine Girls,
Kevin Saunderson,
Depeche Mode,
James White and The Blacks,
Ornette Coleman,
Faust,
Make Up,
T. Rex,
Soft Machine,
Television,
Carl Craig,
Theoretical Girls,
Basic Channel,
Audionom,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalann,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Groovy Waters,
H. Thieme,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Grauzone,
Piero Umiliani,
Deadbeat,
The Fugs,
The Selecter,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Residents,
Outsiders,
Tommy Roe,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Visage,
In Retrospect,
AZ,
Jandek,
Connie Case,
Infiniti,
the Human League,
Minor Threat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.