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 Serbia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Massinfluence to the punk 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Hoover,
Lower 48,
Scott Walker,
Thompson Twins,
Gregory Isaacs,
Charles Mingus,
Lyres,
Junior Murvin,
Sandy B,
The Pop Group,
Animal Collective,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
E-Dancer,
Wasted Youth,
Negative Approach,
Chris & Cosey,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Smoke,
The Five Americans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Althea and Donna,
Minny Pops,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tubeway Army,
Marvin Gaye,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Star Department,
Ultimate Spinach,
Q65,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Kinks,
T.S.O.L.,
Lightning Bolt,
Erasure,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Public Enemy,
Avey Tare,
Essential Logic,
Fela Kuti,
The Cramps,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Robert Wyatt,
Liliput,
Sexual Harrassment,
Suicide,
Bobby Womack,
Steve Hackett,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Juan Atkins,
This Heat,
Curtis Mayfield,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fluxion,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lou Christie,
Drive Like Jehu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nick Fraelich,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.