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 Guyana and from Lagos.
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 Tokyo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Depeche Mode,
Delta 5,
The Music Machine,
Mad Mike,
Roxy Music,
Soulsonic Force,
The Cure,
Ornette Coleman,
Nas,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sandy B,
Soft Machine,
B.T. Express,
Kenny Larkin,
Rosa Yemen,
Unrelated Segments,
Smog,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tres Demented,
Schoolly D,
Nirvana,
Sex Pistols,
New York Dolls,
Flipper,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Mojo Men,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gabor Szabo,
Sound Behaviour,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soft Cell,
Aaron Thompson,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jerry's Kids,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Radio Birdman,
the Swans,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lindisfarne,
Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Surgeon,
the Germs,
Rod Modell,
Alphaville,
Charles Mingus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Drexciya,
Pantaleimon,
Ice-T,
Dead Boys,
Vainqueur,
Derrick Morgan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.