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 Uruguay and from Taipei.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Dorothy Ashby to the rock 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
One Last Wish,
The Happenings,
Stereo Dub,
Inner City,
Brothers Johnson,
Leonard Cohen,
John Foxx,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Flag,
Organ,
Swans,
E-Dancer,
Slave,
Lungfish,
Flash Fearless,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Monochrome Set,
Make Up,
Funky Four + One,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gil Scott Heron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Joy Division,
Parry Music,
The Moody Blues,
Whodini,
The Trojans,
EPMD,
Colin Newman,
Harmonia,
Barry Ungar,
Nas,
Spoonie Gee,
Scrapy,
Young Marble Giants,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Vladislav Delay,
The Fortunes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Big Daddy Kane,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Electric Light Orchestra,
AZ,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Hood,
Brick,
Hardrive,
Schoolly D,
Faust,
Joe Finger,
Bluetip,
the Germs,
Theoretical Girls,
The Offenders,
Piero Umiliani,
Freddie Wadling,
Darondo,
Camberwell Now,
Grey Daturas,
Sonic Youth,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.