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 Congo and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and London.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 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 KRS-One to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 H. Thieme. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a E-Dancer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
The Happenings,
Bad Manners,
Sparks,
The Residents,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Hasil Adkins,
Q and Not U,
Lakeside,
Archie Shepp,
Barbara Tucker,
Juan Atkins,
Groovy Waters,
Bob Dylan,
Barry Ungar,
Scientists,
Laurel Aitken,
Dual Sessions,
The Wake,
Excepter,
OOIOO,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
X-102,
Unwound,
Lyres,
Glambeats Corp.,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roy Ayers,
The Offenders,
Public Enemy,
Funkadelic,
China Crisis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cymande,
Sun City Girls,
Suburban Knight,
Magma,
Television,
LL Cool J,
David Axelrod,
Pantaleimon,
John Cale,
B.T. Express,
The Trojans,
Malaria!,
Basic Channel,
The Monks,
Rosa Yemen,
Clear Light,
Soulsonic Force,
Soft Cell,
Con Funk Shun,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Christie,
Fugazi,
The Star Department,
Isaac Hayes,
Gang Green,
Von Mondo,
Joyce Sims,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Deadbeat,
The Blues Magoos,
Black Sheep,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.