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 Singapore and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator 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 The Techniques to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Tommy Roe,
Lungfish,
Lakeside,
Lucky Dragons,
Au Pairs,
Skaos,
Davy DMX,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Barclay James Harvest,
Danielle Patucci,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Isaac Hayes,
Bill Near,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
DJ Style,
The Beau Brummels,
The Fire Engines,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Electric Prunes,
Bronski Beat,
In Retrospect,
Jeff Lynne,
Magma,
cv313,
Marvin Gaye,
ABC,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kenny Larkin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Derrick Morgan,
The Skatalites,
Matthew Halsall,
Yazoo,
Laurel Aitken,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Monochrome Set,
Guru Guru,
The Count Five,
Jeff Mills,
The Associates,
Wolf Eyes,
The Seeds,
Yellowson,
Jacques Brel,
DJ Sneak,
Schoolly D,
Sonic Youth,
The Selecter,
The Blues Magoos,
Moebius,
Roxy Music,
Soft Machine,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Moss Icon,
Robert Wyatt,
The Stooges,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
AZ,
Eric B and Rakim,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.