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 Albania and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 oboe 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 Neu! to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glenn Branca record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Animal Collective,
Bobby Womack,
Judy Mowatt,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Velvet Underground,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kas Product,
Hoover,
The Skatalites,
Spandau Ballet,
Japan,
Gabor Szabo,
Minnie Riperton,
Joe Finger,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Moleskins,
Arcadia,
Los Fastidios,
Bauhaus,
Fela Kuti,
Soul II Soul,
Flipper,
The Monks,
CMW,
Throbbing Gristle,
Aural Exciters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Easy Going,
Skriet,
Scrapy,
The Sonics,
The Dirtbombs,
Charles Mingus,
The Human League,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lindisfarne,
The Saints,
Public Enemy,
L. Decosne,
Anthony Braxton,
Groovy Waters,
Deepchord,
Erasure,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ice-T,
Rapeman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Index,
Iggy Pop,
The Searchers,
The J.B.'s,
London Community Gospel Choir,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Niagra,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Franke,
Donny Hathaway,
James White and The Blacks,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.