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 Uruguay and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 X-102 to the crunk 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Arab on Radar,
Gang Gang Dance,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joensuu 1685,
The Blues Magoos,
Soft Cell,
Ituana,
X-102,
Dennis Brown,
Symarip,
Thompson Twins,
Pagans,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Depeche Mode,
Lou Christie,
Barbara Tucker,
New Order,
Black Bananas,
Jacques Brel,
Section 25,
Rapeman,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camberwell Now,
Big Daddy Kane,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Panda Bear,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fuzztones,
Jeff Mills,
Babytalk,
Rufus Thomas,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Skatalites,
Fad Gadget,
The Count Five,
The Mojo Men,
Bad Manners,
Crash Course in Science,
The Evens,
Groovy Waters,
U.S. Maple,
Ronnie Foster,
Simply Red,
The Slits,
The Monochrome Set,
T. Rex,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gichy Dan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sarah Menescal,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Deepchord,
10cc,
Intrusion,
Massinfluence,
The Zeros,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wings,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.