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 Germany and from Bologna.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Cafe Wha.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Groovy Waters,
The Pretty Things,
Rod Modell,
Yaz,
The Moody Blues,
Throbbing Gristle,
Janne Schatter,
Letta Mbulu,
Rotary Connection,
FM Einheit,
Robert Görl,
Absolute Body Control,
Roxy Music,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Popol Vuh,
Lyres,
Rosa Yemen,
The Evens,
Patti Smith,
Banda Bassotti,
Main Source,
Radio Birdman,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ultra Naté,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hot Snakes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Erykah Badu,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tubeway Army,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
EPMD,
X-102,
Pierre Henry,
Magma,
The Fire Engines,
Unrelated Segments,
Fatback Band,
The Remains,
John Lydon,
Bootsy Collins,
Cecil Taylor,
Ronan,
Rapeman,
Wally Richardson,
Q and Not U,
Dark Day,
The Human League,
The Moleskins,
Cheater Slicks,
Gang of Four,
Jacob Miller,
Flash Fearless,
Tres Demented,
The Litter,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.