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 Slovakia and from Milan.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Newcleus to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Cybotron,
Depeche Mode,
PIL,
Black Flag,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joey Negro,
Dave Gahan,
The Pop Group,
Kenny Larkin,
The Beau Brummels,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Black Dice,
Gabor Szabo,
Quadrant,
Stiv Bators,
DJ Sneak,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sun City Girls,
CMW,
Gang Green,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Franke,
Siglo XX,
Stereo Dub,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Reuben Wilson,
Camberwell Now,
The Pretty Things,
The Leaves,
Ralphi Rosario,
Hardrive,
Masters at Work,
Arab on Radar,
Junior Murvin,
Inner City,
Letta Mbulu,
Prince Buster,
Section 25,
Jawbox,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
X-Ray Spex,
Hot Snakes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Index,
The Neon Judgement,
Laurel Aitken,
Absolute Body Control,
Jacob Miller,
Reagan Youth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Heaven 17,
Girls At Our Best!,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eric Dolphy,
Swell Maps,
The Wake,
Gang Starr,
The Motions,
The Saints,
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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.