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 Montenegro and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Chris & Cosey to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Adolescents,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Funkadelic,
Pole,
The American Breed,
Hardrive,
Lou Reed,
Ultra Naté,
Althea and Donna,
Steve Hackett,
Lungfish,
Warren Ellis,
Eric B and Rakim,
Unrelated Segments,
Kaleidoscope,
48th St. Collective,
The Divine Comedy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joensuu 1685,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eden Ahbez,
Malaria!,
Freddie Wadling,
Mark Hollis,
Japan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Judy Mowatt,
Robert Hood,
Terrestrial Tones,
Swans,
Shuggie Otis,
In Retrospect,
Aloha Tigers,
Y Pants,
Buzzcocks,
Crash Course in Science,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scion,
Byron Stingily,
Pylon,
the Bar-Kays,
Susan Cadogan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Star Department,
The Golliwogs,
Bobby Byrd,
Whodini,
Marmalade,
Patti Smith,
Fluxion,
Groovy Waters,
Roy Ayers,
The Associates,
Rites of Spring,
The Monks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.