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 South Sudan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
David Axelrod,
Bronski Beat,
Skaos,
Rhythm & Sound,
Hoover,
Sex Pistols,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Cure,
Donny Hathaway,
Roxy Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lower 48,
Zapp,
Crash Course in Science,
The Beau Brummels,
Rosa Yemen,
Bobby Byrd,
MC5,
Gerry Rafferty,
Henry Cow,
H. Thieme,
the Association,
Oblivians,
Graham Central Station,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bobby Womack,
DJ Style,
The Divine Comedy,
Outsiders,
The Sound,
Desert Stars,
Minny Pops,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gabor Szabo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Warsaw,
Lou Reed,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Brick,
Eurythmics,
Camberwell Now,
Massinfluence,
Howard Jones,
The Slits,
Curtis Mayfield,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bush Tetras,
Patti Smith,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Grass Roots,
the Fania All-Stars,
Fatback Band,
Vladislav Delay,
MDC,
Fear,
Stereo Dub,
Rekid,
Loose Ends,
Joe Smooth,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.