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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Aloha Tigers to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cabaret Voltaire. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Divine Comedy,
Jeff Mills,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Supertramp,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Suburban Knight,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nation of Ulysses,
DJ Sneak,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Robert Hood,
Zero Boys,
Faraquet,
the Sonics,
Nik Kershaw,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soft Machine,
The Invisible,
Guru Guru,
Main Source,
Monks,
The United States of America,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Amon Düül II,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kas Product,
Tommy Roe,
The Sonics,
JFA,
Colin Newman,
Negative Approach,
The American Breed,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Barracudas,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Reagan Youth,
Little Man,
Fat Boys,
Dennis Brown,
Circle Jerks,
Subhumans,
Agitation Free,
Chrome,
The Associates,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Panda Bear,
The Detroit Cobras,
LL Cool J,
Eurythmics,
Aloha Tigers,
X-Ray Spex,
Grey Daturas,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Last Poets,
The Gun Club,
The Fire Engines,
K-Klass,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.