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 Slovenia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Moody Blues,
The Gap Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Duran Duran,
Hasil Adkins,
Chrome,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Technova,
A Flock of Seagulls,
These Immortal Souls,
Nils Olav,
Visage,
Vainqueur,
Vladislav Delay,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Blake Baxter,
Carl Craig,
Country Teasers,
Pulsallama,
Maurizio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Youth Brigade,
Joey Negro,
Junior Murvin,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Babytalk,
Henry Cow,
Gil Scott Heron,
Marc Almond,
Fad Gadget,
Mars,
Isaac Hayes,
Mandrill,
Pierre Henry,
Hot Snakes,
Tim Buckley,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bronski Beat,
Robert Görl,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Avey Tare,
Thee Headcoats,
Fela Kuti,
Eli Mardock,
Trumans Water,
Television Personalities,
Sonic Youth,
The Modern Lovers,
Oblivians,
The Dead C,
Model 500,
Neil Young,
a-ha,
Flash Fearless,
Skaos,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.