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 Suriname and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Portland.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ituana to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Selecter,
Mad Mike,
Danielle Patucci,
Hot Snakes,
Altered Images,
Robert Hood,
Pharoah Sanders,
Henry Cow,
Country Teasers,
Sandy B,
The Saints,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deakin,
Eric Dolphy,
The Walker Brothers,
The Count Five,
Dennis Brown,
The Divine Comedy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Silicon Teens,
UT,
The Monochrome Set,
the Slits,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Absolute Body Control,
T.S.O.L.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
Yusef Lateef,
The Searchers,
Reuben Wilson,
Rakim,
Rotary Connection,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
AZ,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Grass Roots,
ABBA,
Porter Ricks,
The J.B.'s,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Unwound,
Lightning Bolt,
JFA,
Au Pairs,
The Golliwogs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Severed Heads,
June of 44,
Buzzcocks,
Matthew Halsall,
Jesper Dahlback,
Babytalk,
The Monks,
Arcadia,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Dirtbombs,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.