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 Kenya and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Half Japanese to the disco 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Star Department record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rotary Connection,
Hoover,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Clear Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joyce Sims,
Eurythmics,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Grey Daturas,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Juan Atkins,
Can,
Iggy Pop,
Maurizio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
a-ha,
Agitation Free,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jeff Mills,
Peter & Gordon,
The Offenders,
The Leaves,
Davy DMX,
Rod Modell,
The Victims,
Sällskapet,
Angry Samoans,
Index,
the Germs,
The Associates,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Visage,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Tommy Roe,
X-102,
Average White Band,
Radio Birdman,
Nik Kershaw,
Flipper,
The Evens,
Sun City Girls,
Black Moon,
These Immortal Souls,
The Five Americans,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sister Nancy,
The Fuzztones,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Black Dice,
Camberwell Now,
June of 44,
Von Mondo,
Tres Demented,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.