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 Mauritius and from Accra.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 a-ha to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Bowie,
UT,
Andrew Hill,
Joyce Sims,
Hardrive,
Oblivians,
Eden Ahbez,
Thee Headcoats,
The J.B.'s,
DNA,
Kevin Saunderson,
cv313,
Joensuu 1685,
Monolake,
Ice-T,
Nick Fraelich,
Eurythmics,
Ronnie Foster,
Sound Behaviour,
Whodini,
Lalo Schifrin,
Can,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Oneida,
Yazoo,
Nils Olav,
Sällskapet,
Aaron Thompson,
Guru Guru,
Lee Hazlewood,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Morten Harket,
Blake Baxter,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scion,
Stiv Bators,
Niagra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Wake,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stereo Dub,
Grandmaster Flash,
Black Moon,
Neu!,
Section 25,
Tomorrow,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lightning Bolt,
Lindisfarne,
The Pop Group,
New Order,
Fad Gadget,
PIL,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cameo,
CMW,
The Seeds,
kango's stein massive,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.