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 Samoa and from Spokane.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ 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 Outsiders to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Flipper,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Infiniti,
Brothers Johnson,
Pierre Henry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moby Grape,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Silicon Teens,
Rod Modell,
Donny Hathaway,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sexual Harrassment,
Flash Fearless,
Albert Ayler,
JFA,
Avey Tare,
The Fire Engines,
Mission of Burma,
David Axelrod,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Evens,
Bluetip,
John Lydon,
Adolescents,
Bill Near,
Boz Scaggs,
Mark Hollis,
Gang Green,
Ituana,
ABBA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tres Demented,
Wolf Eyes,
Marmalade,
The Standells,
Intrusion,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rekid,
Massinfluence,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Maurizio,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Little Man,
Roger Hodgson,
Quantec,
Bronski Beat,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Davy DMX,
Tom Boy,
The Busters,
The Mojo Men,
Carl Craig,
John Holt,
Lalann,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.