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 Ghana and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 guitar 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 The Names to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sexual Harrassment,
Colin Newman,
New Order,
Audionom,
the Soft Cell,
Dave Gahan,
Zapp,
The Stooges,
The Blues Magoos,
China Crisis,
Reuben Wilson,
June of 44,
Magazine,
Monolake,
The Black Dice,
The Cowsills,
Model 500,
Roger Hodgson,
Rod Modell,
Alice Coltrane,
Joey Negro,
The Buckinghams,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ludus,
Ice-T,
Gichy Dan,
The Happenings,
Skriet,
Adolescents,
Banda Bassotti,
Bronski Beat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
48th St. Collective,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Fania All-Stars,
Camberwell Now,
Wings,
Danielle Patucci,
Freddie Wadling,
Crash Course in Science,
The Standells,
H. Thieme,
Hashim,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Inner City,
The Mojo Men,
Lou Christie,
Babytalk,
Scion,
Tim Buckley,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Byron Stingily,
MDC,
The Seeds,
Bluetip,
The Grass Roots,
David Axelrod,
Ituana,
The J.B.'s,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kas Product,
The Vogues,
the Human League,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.