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 Vanuatu and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum 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 Yusef Lateef to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants 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 grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
The Fall,
The Seeds,
Jeru the Damaja,
Soft Cell,
Magma,
Alison Limerick,
David McCallum,
Jawbox,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Neu!,
The Searchers,
Vainqueur,
Mandrill,
Circle Jerks,
Derrick Morgan,
The Index,
Lightning Bolt,
Saccharine Trust,
The Red Krayola,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Young Marble Giants,
Unrelated Segments,
Royal Trux,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rod Modell,
Audionom,
The Motions,
Alton Ellis,
the Normal,
Amon Düül,
Fear,
The Walker Brothers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Arcadia,
Faust,
Dawn Penn,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Gap Band,
Man Parrish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marmalade,
Interpol,
Steve Hackett,
Lalo Schifrin,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Saints,
Kool Moe Dee,
Piero Umiliani,
Donny Hathaway,
Babytalk,
Alphaville,
X-102,
Heaven 17,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
K-Klass,
Eve St. Jones,
The Remains,
Roxette,
Spoonie Gee,
EPMD,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.