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 Turkmenistan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bad Manners to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth 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 an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
The Young Rascals,
Rufus Thomas,
Hashim,
The Index,
Schoolly D,
Mary Jane Girls,
Make Up,
Rapeman,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Arab on Radar,
The Fortunes,
Pylon,
The Mojo Men,
Brass Construction,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Procol Harum,
Cymande,
Traffic Nightmare,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Gories,
B.T. Express,
Grey Daturas,
Stetsasonic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Easy Going,
Depeche Mode,
Dorothy Ashby,
Brick,
Jawbox,
K-Klass,
Stiv Bators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swell Maps,
Joe Smooth,
Newcleus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eddi Front,
Eric Copeland,
Aswad,
Wire,
Heaven 17,
the Sonics,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Swans,
The Human League,
The Stooges,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dave Clark Five,
48th St. Collective,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Black Dice,
Isaac Hayes,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Wake,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.