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 Benin and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Rotary Connection to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erykah Badu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lyres,
The Wake,
The Fire Engines,
Basic Channel,
kango's stein massive,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Gun Club,
Steve Hackett,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Germs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
World's Most,
Flash Fearless,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Stiv Bators,
The Vogues,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Motions,
Roxette,
Maurizio,
Tears for Fears,
Sixth Finger,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Terry Callier,
Aloha Tigers,
Roger Hodgson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Motorama,
Blake Baxter,
DNA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Moebius,
Sandy B,
Ronan,
Excepter,
Infiniti,
Stereo Dub,
Zero Boys,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nas,
Roy Ayers,
Skarface,
Wings,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
cv313,
Scratch Acid,
The Count Five,
Patti Smith,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Pop Group,
Byron Stingily,
Main Source,
In Retrospect,
Royal Trux,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joensuu 1685,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Age Steppers,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.