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 Belarus and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 harpsichord 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 Letta Mbulu to the punk 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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Slave,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Second Layer,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Glenn Branca,
X-101,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Letta Mbulu,
Amon Düül II,
Accadde A,
A Certain Ratio,
10cc,
Ronan,
Robert Hood,
Johnny Osbourne,
The New Christs,
Albert Ayler,
Jerry's Kids,
Theoretical Girls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Minny Pops,
These Immortal Souls,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gang Gang Dance,
Toni Rubio,
Quantec,
Fat Boys,
LL Cool J,
the Human League,
One Last Wish,
Arab on Radar,
MC5,
Adolescents,
Althea and Donna,
Q65,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cymande,
Pole,
Johnny Clarke,
AZ,
Janne Schatter,
Donald Byrd,
Dawn Penn,
Outsiders,
Babytalk,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Little Man,
Marine Girls,
Maurizio,
L. Decosne,
Ultra Naté,
Avey Tare,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rites of Spring,
Harmonia,
Brass Construction,
Grey Daturas,
The Doors,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.