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 Costa Rica and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Halifax and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Gun Club to the rock 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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Roxy Music,
U.S. Maple,
James White and The Blacks,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soul II Soul,
the Normal,
Pagans,
Ice-T,
Neu!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lightning Bolt,
The Sound,
This Heat,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Grass Roots,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minnie Riperton,
Patti Smith,
Underground Resistance,
The Fuzztones,
Rotary Connection,
Lungfish,
Slick Rick,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Zapp,
the Bar-Kays,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Schoolly D,
Symarip,
Pylon,
Gichy Dan,
Avey Tare,
Fela Kuti,
Average White Band,
Joey Negro,
Black Bananas,
Iggy Pop,
Camouflage,
Main Source,
Warsaw,
The J.B.'s,
Metal Thangz,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
48th St. Collective,
Ossler,
Andrew Hill,
The Happenings,
Gang Green,
In Retrospect,
Carl Craig,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Fortunes,
Angry Samoans,
Pole,
Black Moon,
Sight & Sound,
The Golliwogs,
KRS-One,
Animal Collective,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.