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 Romania and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Scrapy to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All R.M.O. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
The Happenings,
The Mojo Men,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Massinfluence,
kango's stein massive,
The Motions,
The Durutti Column,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Vladislav Delay,
Supertramp,
Fugazi,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Marvin Gaye,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Associates,
Technova,
John Holt,
Ituana,
Icehouse,
Rekid,
Tim Buckley,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Stooges,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Babytalk,
Minutemen,
The Velvet Underground,
Gong,
Todd Terry,
The Barracudas,
The Tremeloes,
The Blues Magoos,
Sällskapet,
Mantronix,
The Star Department,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gap Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Patti Smith,
The Wake,
Japan,
Television,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Normal,
Surgeon,
Bob Dylan,
KRS-One,
The Golliwogs,
Con Funk Shun,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wings,
Swell Maps,
T.S.O.L.,
Radiohead,
Siglo XX,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Cymande,
The Walker Brothers,
The Busters,
Camberwell Now,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.