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 Grenada and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Country Teasers to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Lyres,
The Fuzztones,
New Order,
David Axelrod,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lalann,
ABC,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Stooges,
Youth Brigade,
T. Rex,
Traffic Nightmare,
Heaven 17,
Jerry's Kids,
Eden Ahbez,
CMW,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lalo Schifrin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Deakin,
FM Einheit,
Morten Harket,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Albert Ayler,
Trumans Water,
Brand Nubian,
Big Daddy Kane,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Names,
Television,
Babytalk,
Icehouse,
Average White Band,
Flash Fearless,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Chris Corsano,
These Immortal Souls,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Massinfluence,
Scott Walker,
Ituana,
Nico,
The Invisible,
The Remains,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Dirtbombs,
Interpol,
Organ,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Smiths,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Amazonics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Suicide,
Aaron Thompson,
Lower 48,
Supertramp,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.