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 Sierra Leone and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Negative Approach to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
Bobby Byrd,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Don Cherry,
Lou Reed,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Inner City,
The Music Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Excepter,
Blancmange,
Funky Four + One,
Schoolly D,
Black Flag,
Von Mondo,
Qualms,
ABBA,
Alice Coltrane,
Tomorrow,
Carl Craig,
The Gories,
Barclay James Harvest,
A Certain Ratio,
Tropical Tobacco,
Arcadia,
Loose Ends,
Rosa Yemen,
K-Klass,
Black Bananas,
The Barracudas,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pop Group,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ice-T,
Can,
The Invisible,
F. McDonald,
Kaleidoscope,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pulsallama,
Ludus,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Blues Magoos,
The Remains,
Anthony Braxton,
The Skatalites,
Robert Görl,
Ohio Players,
The Sonics,
Eden Ahbez,
Lou Christie,
U.S. Maple,
James White and The Blacks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sam Rivers,
Rotary Connection,
Jimmy McGriff,
Howard Jones,
Spandau Ballet,
Moby Grape,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.