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 Samoa and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 guitar 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 Smog to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drexciya,
Deadbeat,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ponytail,
Cymande,
48th St. Collective,
Essential Logic,
a-ha,
Banda Bassotti,
Eric Dolphy,
Scan 7,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ken Boothe,
Eli Mardock,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jawbox,
Mantronix,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Gories,
Roxette,
Tommy Roe,
Minnie Riperton,
The Gun Club,
Sandy B,
Unrelated Segments,
F. McDonald,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camberwell Now,
Derrick Morgan,
Icehouse,
Technova,
Reagan Youth,
Accadde A,
Nik Kershaw,
Joey Negro,
Ronnie Foster,
Lightning Bolt,
Cybotron,
In Retrospect,
The Techniques,
Jeff Mills,
Stereo Dub,
The Dead C,
R.M.O.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Minny Pops,
Yazoo,
Absolute Body Control,
Masters at Work,
Saccharine Trust,
The Barracudas,
L. Decosne,
Bobby Womack,
Dawn Penn,
EPMD,
Amon Düül,
Joensuu 1685,
Man Parrish,
Gang of Four,
Inner City,
Sun Ra,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.