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 Belarus 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gang of Four to the dance 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
Peter and Kerry,
U.S. Maple,
Lindisfarne,
Jesper Dahlback,
Franke,
Joy Division,
Sonic Youth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Doors,
Kerri Chandler,
The Leaves,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eurythmics,
Metal Thangz,
48th St. Collective,
Fear,
The Red Krayola,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bobby Byrd,
Public Enemy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Crime,
Kayak,
Joyce Sims,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Gun Club,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Görl,
Gang Green,
The Birthday Party,
Skarface,
Smog,
June of 44,
R.M.O.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
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Suburban Knight,
Hoover,
The J.B.'s,
Scion,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Schoolly D,
Sam Rivers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scott Walker,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Amon Düül,
Hashim,
The Divine Comedy,
Chris & Cosey,
Ponytail,
Popol Vuh,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pole,
Carl Craig,
The Fugs,
T. Rex,
T.S.O.L.,
Au Pairs,
Arab on Radar,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.