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 Slovenia and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Brand Nubian to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
the Sonics,
Symarip,
Model 500,
Man Parrish,
Amon Düül,
The Gladiators,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jacob Miller,
Tom Boy,
The Knickerbockers,
The Velvet Underground,
The Index,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Normal,
Bush Tetras,
Jandek,
Gang Gang Dance,
Altered Images,
Ice-T,
Harpers Bizarre,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joyce Sims,
Tim Buckley,
Moss Icon,
Thee Headcoats,
Bobby Sherman,
Outsiders,
Deepchord,
The Martian,
Public Enemy,
Soulsonic Force,
Silicon Teens,
Al Stewart,
The Searchers,
Lungfish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Patti Smith,
Quando Quango,
Nils Olav,
Rosa Yemen,
Arcadia,
Freddie Wadling,
The Music Machine,
Whodini,
Gong,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Byron Stingily,
Pere Ubu,
Half Japanese,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Christie,
Suicide,
The Last Poets,
James White and The Blacks,
The Doors,
Simply Red,
The Misunderstood,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.