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 Marshall Islands and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the guitar 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 Crime to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Excepter,
Blancmange,
Schoolly D,
Eric B and Rakim,
John Holt,
Panda Bear,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Chrome,
Pet Shop Boys,
Depeche Mode,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Electric Prunes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Man Parrish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Doors,
AZ,
Television,
Mandrill,
Surgeon,
Qualms,
Wally Richardson,
The Count Five,
Jawbox,
Hasil Adkins,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Toni Rubio,
Roxy Music,
Ultimate Spinach,
kango's stein massive,
Hoover,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Soft Cell,
Idris Muhammad,
Tim Buckley,
Piero Umiliani,
Camouflage,
The Grass Roots,
The United States of America,
Fat Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Swans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scott Walker,
Outsiders,
Rod Modell,
Al Stewart,
Eden Ahbez,
Gang of Four,
Gil Scott Heron,
Chris Corsano,
the Bar-Kays,
June Days,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Second Layer,
Nirvana,
Can,
The Last Poets,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.