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 Latvia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Marshall Jefferson to the funk 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Pussy Galore,
Bobby Sherman,
Graham Central Station,
Lalann,
The Fugs,
Make Up,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Associates,
Symarip,
Lightning Bolt,
Toni Rubio,
Moss Icon,
Pulsallama,
Prince Buster,
Sonic Youth,
In Retrospect,
Don Cherry,
Carl Craig,
Rotary Connection,
Jeff Mills,
Hashim,
Lou Christie,
Country Teasers,
Lungfish,
Roger Hodgson,
Von Mondo,
John Coltrane,
Circle Jerks,
Rosa Yemen,
Siglo XX,
Soul II Soul,
Nik Kershaw,
The Vogues,
Cymande,
Josef K,
Quando Quango,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Electric Prunes,
June of 44,
The J.B.'s,
Gil Scott Heron,
Soft Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultravox,
The Kinks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Move,
Cybotron,
The Mighty Diamonds,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
X-102,
New Age Steppers,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Evens,
One Last Wish,
Glenn Branca,
AZ,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.