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 Cameroon and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Detroit Cobras,
Sparks,
Q65,
Rod Modell,
A Certain Ratio,
Eric Dolphy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Brass Construction,
Barbara Tucker,
Soft Machine,
Wire,
Black Sheep,
Nas,
Rufus Thomas,
Iggy Pop,
Dave Gahan,
Hoover,
The Invisible,
The Blues Magoos,
Animal Collective,
Joyce Sims,
Hashim,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joensuu 1685,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kenny Larkin,
Quantec,
Kayak,
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Severed Heads,
Eve St. Jones,
48th St. Collective,
Jeff Mills,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Evens,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Tremeloes,
ABBA,
Unwound,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Blackbyrds,
Bush Tetras,
Sugar Minott,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Agent Orange,
The Kinks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Absolute Body Control,
Matthew Halsall,
Ronan,
Ponytail,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Suburban Knight,
Infiniti,
CMW,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Stetsasonic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The New Christs,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.