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 Belgium and from Accra.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 synthesizer 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 Yusef Lateef to the techno 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
Johnny Osbourne,
Adolescents,
Qualms,
The Cowsills,
Cybotron,
Leonard Cohen,
Nirvana,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Symarip,
Nik Kershaw,
Roxy Music,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dennis Brown,
Rotary Connection,
The Walker Brothers,
JFA,
MDC,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Technova,
Newcleus,
Patti Smith,
The New Christs,
Young Marble Giants,
Robert Hood,
Cecil Taylor,
Derrick May,
Second Layer,
Rekid,
Quando Quango,
New Age Steppers,
The Gories,
Guru Guru,
Nico,
June of 44,
The Moleskins,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Black Sheep,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Iggy Pop,
Prince Buster,
The Blackbyrds,
Sight & Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marc Almond,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Zeros,
Marmalade,
Colin Newman,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Thee Headcoats,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Real Kids,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Boz Scaggs,
David McCallum,
World's Most,
Schoolly D,
Model 500,
Curtis Mayfield,
Soft Machine,
The Sound,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.