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 Iceland and from Paris.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 arpeggiator 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 Alphaville to the electroclash 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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Trojans,
The Fire Engines,
Guru Guru,
Neu!,
Roger Hodgson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Zeros,
Quantec,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Metal Thangz,
Kerrie Biddell,
Youth Brigade,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Gap Band,
The Busters,
Jawbox,
Ludus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Thee Headcoats,
Robert Hood,
Cameo,
The Black Dice,
Letta Mbulu,
Johnny Clarke,
The Victims,
Clear Light,
The Pretty Things,
Ronan,
The Stooges,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
LL Cool J,
In Retrospect,
The Gladiators,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lakeside,
Fad Gadget,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
KRS-One,
Roxy Music,
Pierre Henry,
Gichy Dan,
Man Parrish,
The Fortunes,
Cecil Taylor,
Marc Almond,
The Residents,
Lou Reed,
Skarface,
Slick Rick,
Deakin,
Kayak,
10cc,
Janne Schatter,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Oneida,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dennis Brown,
The Beau Brummels,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.