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 Korea North and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
AZ,
Man Eating Sloth,
Blossom Toes,
Eden Ahbez,
Ossler,
Swell Maps,
The Count Five,
Shoche,
The Slits,
Glenn Branca,
The Names,
Soul II Soul,
Henry Cow,
Electric Prunes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Accadde A,
the Normal,
Scion,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Scientists,
Flipper,
Kayak,
Mr. Review,
Trumans Water,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Radio Birdman,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scratch Acid,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Vogues,
Bootsy Collins,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
John Coltrane,
Public Enemy,
The Techniques,
KRS-One,
Whodini,
Motorama,
The Associates,
These Immortal Souls,
Au Pairs,
Dennis Brown,
Funky Four + One,
Marcia Griffiths,
Masters at Work,
X-101,
Nik Kershaw,
Vladislav Delay,
Kerri Chandler,
Judy Mowatt,
Nico,
MDC,
Man Parrish,
Hoover,
A Certain Ratio,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Wake,
Panda Bear,
the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays.
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.