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 Colombia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Lou Reed 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 Jeff Lynne to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 48th St. Collective. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Rotary Connection,
Marvin Gaye,
Aloha Tigers,
Kas Product,
Davy DMX,
Babytalk,
The Fugs,
Prince Buster,
Jacob Miller,
Agent Orange,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gang Starr,
Yazoo,
Wasted Youth,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Boz Scaggs,
Moebius,
Erykah Badu,
Qualms,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Foxx,
Ten City,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sällskapet,
The Doors,
The Moody Blues,
Scientists,
Rosa Yemen,
Ice-T,
The Wake,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Swell Maps,
Donny Hathaway,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fuzztones,
Bronski Beat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nico,
Don Cherry,
New Age Steppers,
Moss Icon,
Darondo,
Dark Day,
Delta 5,
Technova,
June of 44,
The Happenings,
Josef K,
X-Ray Spex,
F. McDonald,
Bush Tetras,
ABC,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Michelle Simonal,
Sight & Sound,
Howard Jones,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.