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 Bahamas and from Mumbai.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Moleskins to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Agent Orange,
New Order,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Todd Rundgren,
Deepchord,
Anthony Braxton,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Glenn Branca,
Morten Harket,
Piero Umiliani,
Crash Course in Science,
Oblivians,
Rod Modell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Deadbeat,
Silicon Teens,
Moebius,
Maleditus Sound,
Dual Sessions,
Drive Like Jehu,
David McCallum,
Zero Boys,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stereo Dub,
Ten City,
Amon Düül,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jawbox,
Wings,
Lucky Dragons,
Aural Exciters,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pierre Henry,
Johnny Clarke,
Das Ding,
Theoretical Girls,
The Invisible,
Prince Buster,
Eli Mardock,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eden Ahbez,
The Blues Magoos,
Intrusion,
June Days,
Symarip,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Dead C,
Traffic Nightmare,
Loose Ends,
Brand Nubian,
Banda Bassotti,
Excepter,
Marine Girls,
Interpol,
The Sonics,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Radiohead,
Altered Images,
Cameo,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.