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 Spain and from Accra.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Flash Fearless to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Chris Corsano,
Gang Starr,
Reuben Wilson,
Warren Ellis,
Fela Kuti,
The Birthday Party,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Underground Resistance,
Colin Newman,
The Gladiators,
E-Dancer,
Joe Smooth,
The American Breed,
Kas Product,
Interpol,
John Lydon,
Brand Nubian,
the Slits,
Visage,
Roxy Music,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lungfish,
Zero Boys,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Cure,
Letta Mbulu,
Kevin Saunderson,
Faust,
Matthew Halsall,
Jeru the Damaja,
Los Fastidios,
AZ,
Quantec,
T. Rex,
David Axelrod,
New York Dolls,
Brass Construction,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Second Layer,
Technova,
Metal Thangz,
The Selecter,
Average White Band,
Quando Quango,
Man Parrish,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
10cc,
Lou Reed,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Glenn Branca,
Albert Ayler,
Minor Threat,
Ken Boothe,
The Happenings,
Fear,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.