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 Albania and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Crime 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 The Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader 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 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Television,
Lucky Dragons,
Anthony Braxton,
The Gap Band,
The Real Kids,
The Busters,
the Normal,
Fatback Band,
DJ Sneak,
The American Breed,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Theoretical Girls,
The Blues Magoos,
Lou Christie,
Hardrive,
Faust,
The Fire Engines,
Ponytail,
Intrusion,
Bauhaus,
The Litter,
Cal Tjader,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Man Eating Sloth,
Crispy Ambulance,
New Order,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Silicon Teens,
Stockholm Monsters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Supertramp,
Idris Muhammad,
Neu!,
Black Bananas,
Sugar Minott,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
In Retrospect,
Nico,
The Martian,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Make Up,
Tropical Tobacco,
Basic Channel,
Niagra,
The Associates,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cybotron,
The Motions,
Jawbox,
Minutemen,
The Techniques,
Deadbeat,
Rites of Spring,
Masters at Work,
Ralphi Rosario,
Japan,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.