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 Kazakhstan and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Bobby Sherman to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
The Residents,
Hot Snakes,
Minutemen,
Buzzcocks,
Brass Construction,
Outsiders,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Index,
Average White Band,
KRS-One,
Bobby Womack,
The Gun Club,
Terrestrial Tones,
Depeche Mode,
Loose Ends,
Grey Daturas,
MC5,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jeff Mills,
Iggy Pop,
The Sonics,
Television,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Drexciya,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eli Mardock,
The Toasters,
Swell Maps,
Cecil Taylor,
Albert Ayler,
F. McDonald,
Skaos,
Lalann,
Bronski Beat,
The Divine Comedy,
Sun City Girls,
World's Most,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Graham Central Station,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tommy Roe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Walker Brothers,
Stetsasonic,
Supertramp,
The Fuzztones,
The Gories,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobby Byrd,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ludus,
Half Japanese,
Roger Hodgson,
Schoolly D,
Malaria!,
The Trojans,
The Count Five,
Duran Duran,
David Bowie,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.