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 Grenada and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Essential Logic,
Marcia Griffiths,
Harmonia,
Hashim,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fuzztones,
Girls At Our Best!,
Visage,
Grauzone,
The Electric Prunes,
The Knickerbockers,
Sonic Youth,
The Red Krayola,
Pylon,
Buzzcocks,
Big Daddy Kane,
Althea and Donna,
Donny Hathaway,
Deepchord,
Crime,
Accadde A,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cameo,
R.M.O.,
Barry Ungar,
Radiohead,
Roy Ayers,
B.T. Express,
Trumans Water,
Little Man,
Yazoo,
T.S.O.L.,
Kas Product,
Lou Reed,
New Age Steppers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Black Sheep,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anakelly,
Ludus,
Rod Modell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Charles Mingus,
UT,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sam Rivers,
Gichy Dan,
Boz Scaggs,
Ultravox,
The Shadows of Knight,
Newcleus,
Marc Almond,
Ituana,
The Pretty Things,
Don Cherry,
Jeru the Damaja,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.