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 Argentina and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 X-101 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Mr. Review tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
The Pretty Things,
The Litter,
Eve St. Jones,
Hardrive,
Grandmaster Flash,
LL Cool J,
AZ,
Second Layer,
Eddi Front,
Danielle Patucci,
Lyres,
Curtis Mayfield,
Index,
Au Pairs,
Deadbeat,
Section 25,
Underground Resistance,
Faraquet,
Cal Tjader,
MC5,
The Skatalites,
Warsaw,
Agitation Free,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Sound,
Talk Talk,
DJ Sneak,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Heaven 17,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Alison Limerick,
Bush Tetras,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Isaac Hayes,
K-Klass,
Skarface,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Gladiators,
The Searchers,
Black Sheep,
Pulsallama,
Yazoo,
Qualms,
Radiohead,
OOIOO,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
World's Most,
The American Breed,
Lower 48,
Blossom Toes,
Khruangbin,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rod Modell,
New Order,
Brothers Johnson,
Echospace,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Leaves,
Wasted Youth,
ABBA,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crash Course in Science,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.