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 Guatemala and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Gang Gang Dance,
DJ Sneak,
The Star Department,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lungfish,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Harry Pussy,
Eden Ahbez,
Rosa Yemen,
Bad Manners,
Boz Scaggs,
Suburban Knight,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
L. Decosne,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dawn Penn,
The Doobie Brothers,
Graham Central Station,
The Smoke,
Maleditus Sound,
Cluster,
June Days,
The Detroit Cobras,
Piero Umiliani,
the Germs,
ABC,
The Gun Club,
Andrew Hill,
Quando Quango,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mission of Burma,
Wasted Youth,
Idris Muhammad,
Organ,
Gong,
Sällskapet,
Lower 48,
Joy Division,
The Associates,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Holt,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Shadows of Knight,
Davy DMX,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Susan Cadogan,
Moebius,
David Bowie,
the Sonics,
Section 25,
The Buckinghams,
Aaron Thompson,
The Saints,
David Axelrod,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Red Krayola,
Procol Harum,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.