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 Uzbekistan and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the funk 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Rakim,
Black Flag,
Hoover,
Hasil Adkins,
Eric B and Rakim,
Junior Murvin,
Robert Görl,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bad Manners,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The J.B.'s,
Steve Hackett,
Kurtis Blow,
Television,
The Monochrome Set,
Agitation Free,
Negative Approach,
Fela Kuti,
Idris Muhammad,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
X-102,
Roger Hodgson,
Funkadelic,
Electric Prunes,
R.M.O.,
Ludus,
Dorothy Ashby,
Qualms,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mandrill,
Chris Corsano,
Dead Boys,
Scientists,
cv313,
Yellowson,
The Divine Comedy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sun Ra,
The Vogues,
Boredoms,
Vainqueur,
The Electric Prunes,
MC5,
Lakeside,
Darondo,
The Associates,
Johnny Osbourne,
Michelle Simonal,
Kerrie Biddell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Evens,
Radiopuhelimet,
B.T. Express,
Juan Atkins,
Joyce Sims,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jeff Mills,
Jandek,
The Knickerbockers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.