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 Greece and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 snare 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
The Moody Blues,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABC,
The Searchers,
The Fire Engines,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tears for Fears,
The Saints,
Excepter,
Infiniti,
Tubeway Army,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sister Nancy,
Ponytail,
Ten City,
Second Layer,
The Mojo Men,
Pierre Henry,
Aloha Tigers,
The New Christs,
Barclay James Harvest,
D'Angelo,
Faraquet,
China Crisis,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Grass Roots,
The Buckinghams,
X-101,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Yusef Lateef,
The Move,
Idris Muhammad,
The Misunderstood,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joy Division,
Average White Band,
Aural Exciters,
Intrusion,
Depeche Mode,
Piero Umiliani,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Reagan Youth,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Golliwogs,
Ronnie Foster,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Toni Rubio,
Electric Prunes,
Monks,
Inner City,
Urselle,
Scion,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Make Up,
Pole,
Little Man,
Minutemen,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.