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 Japan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Cowsills to the dance 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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
DJ Style,
The Litter,
the Human League,
Oneida,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Model 500,
Yellowson,
Q65,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Birthday Party,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gabor Szabo,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Al Stewart,
Iggy Pop,
Intrusion,
Public Enemy,
Crooked Eye,
UT,
10cc,
The American Breed,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Yazoo,
Guru Guru,
F. McDonald,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lou Reed,
Rekid,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Angels of Light,
Grey Daturas,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ornette Coleman,
Bill Wells,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Audionom,
The Stooges,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Country Teasers,
In Retrospect,
Sarah Menescal,
Derrick May,
Severed Heads,
Television Personalities,
Porter Ricks,
Ultra Naté,
The Remains,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Trojans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camberwell Now,
Bauhaus,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.