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 Madagascar and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare 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 The Techniques 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soul Sonic Force,
10cc,
The Techniques,
Joyce Sims,
Heaven 17,
Jandek,
Bobby Byrd,
Stiv Bators,
JFA,
Joy Division,
Sugar Minott,
Juan Atkins,
Dark Day,
Grandmaster Flash,
Parry Music,
Grey Daturas,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eli Mardock,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sex Pistols,
Unrelated Segments,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tubeway Army,
Darondo,
Gabor Szabo,
Morten Harket,
Sonny Sharrock,
Althea and Donna,
New Order,
X-102,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Soulsonic Force,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Marine Girls,
Rekid,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Easy Going,
John Cale,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Shoche,
John Foxx,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bill Wells,
Rapeman,
Traffic Nightmare,
Urselle,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Sonics,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Magma,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Silicon Teens,
Los Fastidios,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Khruangbin,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.