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 Andorra and from Jakarta.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer 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 Kayak to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fort Wilson Riot record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
John Lydon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Fugs,
The Litter,
Ohio Players,
8 Eyed Spy,
Janne Schatter,
Porter Ricks,
Flash Fearless,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Golliwogs,
The Toasters,
Maurizio,
Animal Collective,
The Sonics,
Sister Nancy,
Aswad,
Ituana,
Con Funk Shun,
Minor Threat,
The Monks,
kango's stein massive,
Robert Görl,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roxy Music,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Metal Thangz,
Fatback Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Cluster,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alice Coltrane,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Beau Brummels,
Joyce Sims,
Slave,
Arcadia,
Delta 5,
Morten Harket,
Aloha Tigers,
Severed Heads,
Little Man,
The Wake,
Japan,
Scan 7,
Crime,
China Crisis,
Zero Boys,
The Smiths,
Chris & Cosey,
Quando Quango,
Basic Channel,
Soft Machine,
Michelle Simonal,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Gories,
Scratch Acid,
Junior Murvin,
Pulsallama,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Panda Bear,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.