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 Belarus and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Jawbox to the techno 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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Joe Smooth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Half Japanese,
Steve Hackett,
Kurtis Blow,
Lower 48,
The Neon Judgement,
Kerri Chandler,
Crooked Eye,
Boogie Down Productions,
Amazonics,
The Vogues,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Thee Headcoats,
JFA,
Scientists,
Camouflage,
DNA,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Mo-Dettes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Johnny Clarke,
Pantaleimon,
Isaac Hayes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Public Image Ltd.,
Swell Maps,
Siglo XX,
Scratch Acid,
Pierre Henry,
Ossler,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Neu!,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Leonard Cohen,
The Velvet Underground,
Ice-T,
The Birthday Party,
Public Enemy,
Alison Limerick,
The Litter,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Cure,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Intrusion,
The Stooges,
Scan 7,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Residents,
Panda Bear,
Moebius,
Eli Mardock,
Deepchord,
The Moleskins,
Cecil Taylor,
Stetsasonic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Soft Cell,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.