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 St Lucia and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and London.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gang of Four to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Byron Stingily record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
AZ,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Stetsasonic,
Absolute Body Control,
The Blues Magoos,
Reagan Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Quadrant,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rakim,
Hashim,
The Wake,
Royal Trux,
Public Enemy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Silicon Teens,
Barry Ungar,
Inner City,
DNA,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ornette Coleman,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erykah Badu,
Sällskapet,
Marc Almond,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Red Krayola,
Kevin Saunderson,
Soft Cell,
Nas,
Swell Maps,
Arcadia,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Toasters,
T. Rex,
Au Pairs,
Donald Byrd,
Sex Pistols,
Stockholm Monsters,
Girls At Our Best!,
David Axelrod,
China Crisis,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Agitation Free,
Nico,
Bobby Womack,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Suburban Knight,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Surgeon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Alton Ellis,
Minny Pops,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fugazi,
Roger Hodgson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.