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 Canada and from Mumbai.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 808 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 Connie Case to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Delon & Dalcan,
Public Enemy,
Niagra,
Minutemen,
Lalann,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
OOIOO,
Ronnie Foster,
Mo-Dettes,
Infiniti,
MC5,
Rites of Spring,
Aloha Tigers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
the Human League,
Barry Ungar,
Albert Ayler,
Alice Coltrane,
Scientists,
Jawbox,
Sixth Finger,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Dead C,
Brass Construction,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
D'Angelo,
The Stooges,
Fela Kuti,
Tommy Roe,
Iggy Pop,
The Busters,
Talk Talk,
Lebanon Hanover,
Neu!,
The Standells,
the Swans,
Urselle,
EPMD,
Mission of Burma,
Alton Ellis,
Delta 5,
Bush Tetras,
The Divine Comedy,
Matthew Bourne,
The Litter,
The Real Kids,
Au Pairs,
FM Einheit,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bill Near,
The Fire Engines,
Terry Callier,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Faraquet,
the Slits,
Flipper,
Reuben Wilson,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.