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 Burkina and from Columbus.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Unwound to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
DJ Sneak,
Jeff Mills,
Yaz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Litter,
Davy DMX,
One Last Wish,
The Barracudas,
Vladislav Delay,
Althea and Donna,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Neu!,
Wings,
Sonic Youth,
Albert Ayler,
Cheater Slicks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Toni Rubio,
Severed Heads,
The J.B.'s,
Thompson Twins,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nick Fraelich,
Dennis Brown,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ultra Naté,
The Gories,
Television,
Arab on Radar,
Scion,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ronnie Foster,
Stereo Dub,
a-ha,
Pere Ubu,
Mission of Burma,
Zapp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter & Gordon,
Crash Course in Science,
The Grass Roots,
Hot Snakes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Depeche Mode,
Pagans,
Max Romeo,
Loose Ends,
Icehouse,
Magma,
10cc,
The Stooges,
Eve St. Jones,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lower 48,
Whodini,
Ponytail,
The Doors,
Lightning Bolt,
Hoover,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.