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 Belarus and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 marimba 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 Audionom to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Agent Orange,
Easy Going,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Detroit Cobras,
Barrington Levy,
Subhumans,
Terry Callier,
Minor Threat,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Little Man,
Mars,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sällskapet,
John Cale,
Tropical Tobacco,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Siglo XX,
Quadrant,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bad Manners,
Moss Icon,
Jeff Lynne,
Archie Shepp,
Lucky Dragons,
The Divine Comedy,
Liliput,
Godley & Creme,
Rosa Yemen,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Flag,
Barclay James Harvest,
Josef K,
the Slits,
Banda Bassotti,
The Index,
Suicide,
Rapeman,
Lindisfarne,
Groovy Waters,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Remains,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gang of Four,
Hashim,
The American Breed,
ABBA,
The Velvet Underground,
New York Dolls,
Gong,
The Red Krayola,
H. Thieme,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Gories,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.