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 Qatar and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Inner City to the dance 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
DNA,
Nico,
Buzzcocks,
Josef K,
Los Fastidios,
Man Parrish,
Matthew Bourne,
Adolescents,
The Remains,
Soulsonic Force,
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ice-T,
Anakelly,
Dual Sessions,
Young Marble Giants,
The Fire Engines,
Unwound,
Alphaville,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rakim,
Maleditus Sound,
Tomorrow,
Gil Scott Heron,
Niagra,
Aswad,
Quadrant,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drexciya,
Graham Central Station,
Absolute Body Control,
The Pretty Things,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Slits,
the Germs,
Deadbeat,
Skarface,
Joey Negro,
Soft Cell,
the Human League,
Hashim,
Cameo,
The Toasters,
The Fortunes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stiv Bators,
Sixth Finger,
Dark Day,
Lou Christie,
Subhumans,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Marvin Gaye,
Metal Thangz,
Davy DMX,
Duran Duran,
The Slits,
Lyres,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.