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 Bolivia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Urselle to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fire Engines,
Audionom,
Camberwell Now,
Second Layer,
Hot Snakes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scrapy,
Unwound,
Jeff Lynne,
David Bowie,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
UT,
Banda Bassotti,
Wire,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Newcleus,
a-ha,
Index,
Dual Sessions,
Yusef Lateef,
Johnny Osbourne,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Urselle,
Accadde A,
Stiv Bators,
Pharoah Sanders,
Grauzone,
The Searchers,
Spandau Ballet,
Schoolly D,
Babytalk,
Tommy Roe,
The Velvet Underground,
Deepchord,
Circle Jerks,
The Cure,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Monolake,
Television,
Shuggie Otis,
Icehouse,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Arab on Radar,
The Standells,
Scan 7,
The Cowsills,
Bob Dylan,
Kas Product,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Doors,
The Kinks,
Max Romeo,
China Crisis,
The Electric Prunes,
Fad Gadget,
Tubeway Army,
Nation of Ulysses,
Livin' Joy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Minny Pops,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.