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 Poland and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bauhaus to the techno 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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Gabor Szabo,
Lower 48,
The Cure,
The Gun Club,
Sonic Youth,
Goldenarms,
Kerrie Biddell,
Camouflage,
Aaron Thompson,
Andrew Hill,
Joey Negro,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Leaves,
Spoonie Gee,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The J.B.'s,
Funky Four + One,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Faraquet,
In Retrospect,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Human League,
Roger Hodgson,
Franke,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Grandmaster Flash,
Iggy Pop,
Prince Buster,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
DJ Style,
Derrick May,
Motorama,
Ultimate Spinach,
Adolescents,
Pylon,
JFA,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Angry Samoans,
The Real Kids,
Lyres,
Young Marble Giants,
The Move,
Public Image Ltd.,
Terry Callier,
Con Funk Shun,
Kas Product,
Drexciya,
Arthur Verocai,
Letta Mbulu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fugazi,
Lee Hazlewood,
Al Stewart,
Stetsasonic,
Accadde A,
Icehouse,
Yaz,
Buzzcocks,
David Bowie,
Absolute Body Control,
The Seeds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.