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 Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Stockholm Monsters to the rap 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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Tubeway Army,
Sparks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Black Moon,
The Beau Brummels,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Warsaw,
Flash Fearless,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Crash Course in Science,
Young Marble Giants,
Cybotron,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Wake,
Deadbeat,
Quadrant,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Robert Görl,
The Durutti Column,
Rakim,
Rosa Yemen,
Zapp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Magma,
The Residents,
Interpol,
the Bar-Kays,
Mo-Dettes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Drexciya,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Trumans Water,
These Immortal Souls,
Gastr Del Sol,
One Last Wish,
Theoretical Girls,
Severed Heads,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Anthony Braxton,
Gong,
PIL,
Deakin,
Amon Düül,
Big Daddy Kane,
Curtis Mayfield,
Animal Collective,
Au Pairs,
Toni Rubio,
Sam Rivers,
Parry Music,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Neil Young,
Gang Green,
Panda Bear,
Ponytail,
The Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.