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 Togo and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Raincoats to the disco 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
Absolute Body Control,
Rotary Connection,
Bill Near,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang Starr,
China Crisis,
Urselle,
Boz Scaggs,
Soft Cell,
Dave Gahan,
Visage,
New Age Steppers,
Radio Birdman,
Brass Construction,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
X-Ray Spex,
Lucky Dragons,
Mantronix,
Jacob Miller,
Animal Collective,
Sam Rivers,
Mars,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sällskapet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Velvet Underground,
The Last Poets,
Danielle Patucci,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Desert Stars,
Fad Gadget,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Quando Quango,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jeff Lynne,
The Walker Brothers,
Harry Pussy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wally Richardson,
Warsaw,
The Barracudas,
Tubeway Army,
EPMD,
This Heat,
Peter & Gordon,
Dark Day,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camberwell Now,
Josef K,
Isaac Hayes,
Kayak,
Easy Going,
Glenn Branca,
Chris & Cosey,
David Axelrod,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.