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 Guinea-Bissau and from Accra.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Salvador.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the disco 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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bizarre Inc.,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Black Pus,
Aural Exciters,
Mark Hollis,
10cc,
Franke,
Young Marble Giants,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rites of Spring,
Infiniti,
Y Pants,
The Mummies,
Vladislav Delay,
DJ Style,
The Neon Judgement,
Fat Boys,
Sun City Girls,
Man Parrish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Derrick Morgan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Colin Newman,
Camouflage,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ossler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cybotron,
Scientists,
Pierre Henry,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nils Olav,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Quadrant,
Underground Resistance,
Parry Music,
Television,
Archie Shepp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Desert Stars,
Maurizio,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Cramps,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Faust,
Agent Orange,
Cymande,
Chris & Cosey,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tears for Fears,
The United States of America,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Fire Engines,
Urselle,
The Searchers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bauhaus,
Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.
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.