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 Austria and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 chamberlin 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 The Monochrome Set to the rock 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
La Düsseldorf,
Blake Baxter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sonic Youth,
Funkadelic,
Flipper,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Grandmaster Flash,
Symarip,
Donald Byrd,
Spandau Ballet,
K-Klass,
Sound Behaviour,
Tubeway Army,
Model 500,
Television,
Tim Buckley,
Donny Hathaway,
Main Source,
Gong,
The Blues Magoos,
Scratch Acid,
Matthew Halsall,
Ten City,
Infiniti,
DNA,
The Fall,
Young Marble Giants,
Chrome,
Connie Case,
Vainqueur,
Lou Reed,
cv313,
Juan Atkins,
Piero Umiliani,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Pretty Things,
Underground Resistance,
Icehouse,
Jimmy McGriff,
Stiv Bators,
Eric Copeland,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Boredoms,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gil Scott Heron,
H. Thieme,
New Order,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Gories,
One Last Wish,
Nico,
Groovy Waters,
Sällskapet,
James White and The Blacks,
Mo-Dettes,
Alice Coltrane,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.