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 Maldives and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 snare 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 Blake Baxter to the grunge 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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
Grandmaster Flash,
Barclay James Harvest,
Deadbeat,
Hoover,
Morten Harket,
Joensuu 1685,
Loose Ends,
Slave,
Basic Channel,
Todd Rundgren,
The Flesh Eaters,
the Germs,
Bobby Byrd,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Theoretical Girls,
Juan Atkins,
Sparks,
The Mojo Men,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kayak,
Jimmy McGriff,
Main Source,
The Motions,
Patti Smith,
Desert Stars,
Colin Newman,
Ice-T,
The Music Machine,
Wolf Eyes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gastr Del Sol,
Arthur Verocai,
Hardrive,
The Gap Band,
Albert Ayler,
Ten City,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Blackbyrds,
X-Ray Spex,
E-Dancer,
a-ha,
Minny Pops,
The Associates,
Idris Muhammad,
Youth Brigade,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lungfish,
The Leaves,
Pharoah Sanders,
Cymande,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Dave Clark Five,
Amon Düül II,
Fluxion,
Ituana,
Rotary Connection,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Suburban Knight,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.