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 France and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Q65 to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
The Star Department,
Guru Guru,
Gregory Isaacs,
Porter Ricks,
Flash Fearless,
Ossler,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mandrill,
Harmonia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Con Funk Shun,
Simply Red,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Altered Images,
Connie Case,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Graham Central Station,
The Vogues,
Jandek,
Main Source,
Man Parrish,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Alarm Clocks,
Hoover,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ronnie Foster,
Pet Shop Boys,
Derrick May,
Circle Jerks,
Royal Trux,
Skriet,
Fluxion,
Peter & Gordon,
Tommy Roe,
Don Cherry,
Alphaville,
Whodini,
World's Most,
The Names,
Matthew Bourne,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Victims,
Nick Fraelich,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rakim,
The Cramps,
Soulsonic Force,
Ludus,
The Residents,
Gabor Szabo,
Joy Division,
The Cure,
Underground Resistance,
a-ha,
Marine Girls,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pussy Galore,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.