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 Malawi and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manchester.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Skriet to the techno 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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Eurythmics,
K-Klass,
Basic Channel,
Leonard Cohen,
Unrelated Segments,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Reagan Youth,
The Offenders,
Talk Talk,
The Sound,
John Holt,
MDC,
Piero Umiliani,
Charles Mingus,
Crash Course in Science,
Clear Light,
Jerry's Kids,
Parry Music,
Brick,
Chris Corsano,
Susan Cadogan,
The Divine Comedy,
Archie Shepp,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Standells,
Bang On A Can,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mantronix,
LL Cool J,
Pussy Galore,
Bobby Womack,
Barrington Levy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wolf Eyes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Moss Icon,
Ultravox,
Black Moon,
Babytalk,
Frankie Knuckles,
Harpers Bizarre,
Spoonie Gee,
a-ha,
Kurtis Blow,
Interpol,
Can,
Nick Fraelich,
Public Image Ltd.,
Arab on Radar,
Hardrive,
Curtis Mayfield,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Gun Club,
Bill Near,
Eden Ahbez,
Gang Gang Dance,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.