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 Cuba and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rekid to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Yusef Lateef,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Aural Exciters,
Henry Cow,
Jesper Dahlback,
Organ,
ABBA,
Grey Daturas,
The Young Rascals,
The Motions,
R.M.O.,
Pierre Henry,
Nils Olav,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wolf Eyes,
X-102,
Terry Callier,
Shuggie Otis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gang Gang Dance,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Procol Harum,
The Blues Magoos,
MDC,
Suicide,
Black Pus,
Sex Pistols,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Human League,
Camberwell Now,
John Coltrane,
Agitation Free,
Marc Almond,
Erasure,
The Grass Roots,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jawbox,
a-ha,
Goldenarms,
Brass Construction,
The Saints,
Groovy Waters,
Brick,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Marvin Gaye,
Country Teasers,
Sixth Finger,
Moss Icon,
Sonic Youth,
John Holt,
The Fire Engines,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Siglo XX,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lee Hazlewood,
Spoonie Gee,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.