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 Cambodia and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mars to the funk 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Dennis Brown,
Tommy Roe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mary Jane Girls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Accadde A,
The Knickerbockers,
The Offenders,
Franke,
The Golliwogs,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Busters,
Ornette Coleman,
Johnny Clarke,
Aswad,
The Blues Magoos,
The Monks,
Blossom Toes,
Soft Cell,
Yaz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stetsasonic,
Interpol,
Morten Harket,
Mo-Dettes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Au Pairs,
Derrick May,
Zero Boys,
Motorama,
Section 25,
Kurtis Blow,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Birthday Party,
Yusef Lateef,
James White and The Blacks,
Lindisfarne,
The Fortunes,
Matthew Halsall,
June Days,
Neil Young,
Simply Red,
The Moleskins,
Todd Terry,
Pussy Galore,
David Axelrod,
Bauhaus,
Andrew Hill,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sandy B,
Alton Ellis,
Sällskapet,
Rotary Connection,
Tres Demented,
Al Stewart,
Be Bop Deluxe,
UT,
The Human League,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.