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 Kiribati and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Saccharine Trust to the rap 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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Gang Green,
The Mojo Men,
Chris Corsano,
The Fugs,
Guru Guru,
Gichy Dan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crash Course in Science,
Bauhaus,
Visage,
The Happenings,
The Residents,
Motorama,
The Blackbyrds,
The Invisible,
The Blues Magoos,
MDC,
Zero Boys,
Public Image Ltd.,
Liliput,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Hot Snakes,
Accadde A,
Section 25,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Godley & Creme,
the Slits,
Oblivians,
The Beau Brummels,
The Slits,
Royal Trux,
The Five Americans,
Swans,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Spandau Ballet,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pharoah Sanders,
Alton Ellis,
Graham Central Station,
Scratch Acid,
Jerry's Kids,
Scientists,
The Move,
Lou Christie,
Eve St. Jones,
Soulsonic Force,
Dark Day,
Stockholm Monsters,
Neil Young,
Make Up,
Bronski Beat,
Arab on Radar,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Barbara Tucker,
Pet Shop Boys,
Shoche,
Interpol,
Goldenarms,
Heaven 17,
New Order,
Marshall Jefferson,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.