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 Australia and from Spokane.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Zapp to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Carl Craig,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lakeside,
Al Stewart,
Saccharine Trust,
Stetsasonic,
Shoche,
Jawbox,
Groovy Waters,
The Moleskins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jandek,
The United States of America,
Ultimate Spinach,
Boz Scaggs,
New Order,
Malaria!,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bad Manners,
Agent Orange,
Suicide,
Leonard Cohen,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bootsy Collins,
D'Angelo,
The J.B.'s,
The Human League,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Reuben Wilson,
Howard Jones,
Sun City Girls,
Alphaville,
The Fuzztones,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Symarip,
Pere Ubu,
Monolake,
Robert Hood,
Eurythmics,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Curtis Mayfield,
Hasil Adkins,
June Days,
Quando Quango,
Dennis Brown,
Tres Demented,
Wings,
Clear Light,
10cc,
Barbara Tucker,
Nirvana,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Swell Maps,
Q and Not U,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.