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 Poland and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Cameo to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Black Moon,
the Normal,
Joe Finger,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Television Personalities,
Moebius,
Al Stewart,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kas Product,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Camberwell Now,
Neu!,
Rites of Spring,
OOIOO,
Joe Smooth,
Darondo,
Intrusion,
Hasil Adkins,
The J.B.'s,
Frankie Knuckles,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ken Boothe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Young Rascals,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bad Manners,
Janne Schatter,
Alphaville,
Gang Gang Dance,
Infiniti,
Oblivians,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Gun Club,
Main Source,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sugar Minott,
T. Rex,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Suicide,
The Offenders,
Cymande,
Stetsasonic,
ABBA,
Ralphi Rosario,
Judy Mowatt,
June of 44,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Siglo XX,
The Motions,
Shoche,
Tres Demented,
Althea and Donna,
Bronski Beat,
Nirvana,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.