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 Slovakia and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 spring reverb 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 The Remains to the techno 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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Porter Ricks,
Alice Coltrane,
Jandek,
Graham Central Station,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Q and Not U,
Marmalade,
Half Japanese,
Royal Trux,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crispian St. Peters,
Shoche,
Bootsy Collins,
X-102,
Bobby Womack,
Althea and Donna,
DNA,
Bobby Byrd,
Banda Bassotti,
The Human League,
Sam Rivers,
Minnie Riperton,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Main Source,
Accadde A,
The Buckinghams,
The Remains,
Leonard Cohen,
Aural Exciters,
Loose Ends,
Amon Düül,
Iggy Pop,
One Last Wish,
Roy Ayers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wire,
Yaz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Camouflage,
Bill Wells,
The Young Rascals,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ludus,
The Leaves,
Lou Reed,
Rosa Yemen,
Babytalk,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Motorama,
The Dirtbombs,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Golliwogs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mission of Burma,
Jeff Mills,
Underground Resistance,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.