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 Kenya and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 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 Ultimate Spinach to the grunge 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
The Velvet Underground,
Barrington Levy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Grey Daturas,
The Five Americans,
Basic Channel,
Ronan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Todd Rundgren,
Lakeside,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sex Pistols,
The Remains,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
David Bowie,
Slave,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bizarre Inc.,
Yellowson,
Slick Rick,
Erykah Badu,
The Sonics,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gabor Szabo,
Delta 5,
Crooked Eye,
the Normal,
Anthony Braxton,
LL Cool J,
The Mummies,
Yusef Lateef,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
R.M.O.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maurizio,
Bobby Womack,
Ossler,
Scion,
Bobby Byrd,
the Bar-Kays,
Oblivians,
The Trojans,
DJ Sneak,
the Human League,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
China Crisis,
Model 500,
Ultravox,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Robert Hood,
The Victims,
Juan Atkins,
Blake Baxter,
Pussy Galore,
X-101,
Cluster,
Don Cherry,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.