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 Monaco and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 American Breed to the crunk 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Dead C,
Isaac Hayes,
The Sound,
The Grass Roots,
Subhumans,
Alison Limerick,
KRS-One,
Minny Pops,
The Five Americans,
Drexciya,
Monolake,
Soft Cell,
the Human League,
Stiv Bators,
Aural Exciters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Nas,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
LL Cool J,
Rosa Yemen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crispy Ambulance,
Agitation Free,
Danielle Patucci,
Faust,
Roxy Music,
Second Layer,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric Dolphy,
Quando Quango,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Bourne,
Lou Reed,
Harpers Bizarre,
Godley & Creme,
New Age Steppers,
ABBA,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Groovy Waters,
Donny Hathaway,
PIL,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultravox,
AZ,
Popol Vuh,
Graham Central Station,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tomorrow,
Shuggie Otis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Radiohead,
The Misunderstood,
Interpol,
One Last Wish,
The Mummies,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.