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 Dominican Republic and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 clarinet 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 Funkadelic to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Sun Ra,
Sexual Harrassment,
Radiohead,
T.S.O.L.,
The Zeros,
Max Romeo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Banda Bassotti,
Clear Light,
Trumans Water,
Franke,
The Modern Lovers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Agent Orange,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Brand Nubian,
Tropical Tobacco,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Depeche Mode,
Blancmange,
Grauzone,
Jerry's Kids,
Anthony Braxton,
The Barracudas,
The Cowsills,
Barry Ungar,
Bill Near,
Alton Ellis,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Goldenarms,
Joey Negro,
Cameo,
Crooked Eye,
Circle Jerks,
Zero Boys,
Underground Resistance,
Smog,
Flamin' Groovies,
Yusef Lateef,
Derrick Morgan,
Arcadia,
Magma,
Cymande,
Visage,
The Martian,
Eric Copeland,
Kerrie Biddell,
Whodini,
Flash Fearless,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Boz Scaggs,
Y Pants,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Aswad,
Mars,
Josef K,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Dual Sessions,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.