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 Venezuela and from Tokyo.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Motions to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The United States of America,
Duran Duran,
Albert Ayler,
Sandy B,
Michelle Simonal,
Kayak,
Scientists,
Jandek,
Lower 48,
DNA,
Roger Hodgson,
Mantronix,
A Certain Ratio,
Clear Light,
Hasil Adkins,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Harpers Bizarre,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
John Cale,
La Düsseldorf,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Alice Coltrane,
The Star Department,
Gang Green,
The Gories,
Ossler,
Grauzone,
Yusef Lateef,
Dorothy Ashby,
Buzzcocks,
Black Sheep,
The Smiths,
Lightning Bolt,
The Flesh Eaters,
Jacques Brel,
Japan,
Talk Talk,
Fluxion,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Unrelated Segments,
Skarface,
Ronan,
Black Bananas,
Roxette,
Ice-T,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Alison Limerick,
DJ Style,
Moss Icon,
The Standells,
The Electric Prunes,
Freddie Wadling,
The Zeros,
Unwound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Suicide,
Stereo Dub,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kenny Larkin,
Robert Hood,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.