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 Ghana and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Arcadia to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
Tim Buckley,
Mars,
Swell Maps,
David Axelrod,
Bill Near,
Max Romeo,
Quantec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bill Wells,
Kurtis Blow,
Scientists,
The Dave Clark Five,
Basic Channel,
Carl Craig,
Amon Düül II,
Derrick Morgan,
Arcadia,
The Gun Club,
Ossler,
Tres Demented,
Hardrive,
Steve Hackett,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Oblivians,
Funkadelic,
The Vogues,
Mandrill,
Swans,
Chris Corsano,
Rakim,
Gang of Four,
UT,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Charles Mingus,
Half Japanese,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Moon,
Crash Course in Science,
Morten Harket,
Robert Hood,
Agitation Free,
Fear,
The Blues Magoos,
The Divine Comedy,
Scan 7,
Lower 48,
Jacob Miller,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Suburban Knight,
Junior Murvin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Groovy Waters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scrapy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.