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 Somalia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Can 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glambeats Corp. 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?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Quantec,
Graham Central Station,
Amazonics,
Brothers Johnson,
Gichy Dan,
Wally Richardson,
Gerry Rafferty,
ABBA,
The Flesh Eaters,
Avey Tare,
Sexual Harrassment,
Toni Rubio,
Colin Newman,
Juan Atkins,
Amon Düül II,
Arthur Verocai,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Saints,
Little Man,
Black Pus,
Tom Boy,
Babytalk,
Nils Olav,
Tim Buckley,
Wire,
Rosa Yemen,
The Selecter,
June Days,
Essential Logic,
The Fortunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bang On A Can,
Erykah Badu,
Sight & Sound,
The Happenings,
Lalo Schifrin,
Procol Harum,
Mad Mike,
Blancmange,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Yazoo,
Marvin Gaye,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mission of Burma,
Urselle,
The New Christs,
Main Source,
The J.B.'s,
Tres Demented,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Tommy Roe,
Idris Muhammad,
Patti Smith,
Lungfish,
Model 500,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Soft Cell,
Brick,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
10cc,
Crooked Eye,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.