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 Malawi and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar 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 Supertramp to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Supertramp,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Patti Smith,
DNA,
Lyres,
The Gladiators,
Barbara Tucker,
Dark Day,
X-101,
Janne Schatter,
The Gun Club,
Camouflage,
Delta 5,
Yaz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Television Personalities,
The Mummies,
Sun City Girls,
Gastr Del Sol,
Peter and Kerry,
Isaac Hayes,
the Sonics,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Laurel Aitken,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Masters at Work,
Kas Product,
Radiohead,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Man Eating Sloth,
John Lydon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crime,
Radiopuhelimet,
Roxy Music,
Prince Buster,
Kool Moe Dee,
Curtis Mayfield,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cybotron,
Minor Threat,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bauhaus,
Warsaw,
Swans,
The Slits,
Outsiders,
Michelle Simonal,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marine Girls,
DJ Sneak,
The Sound,
Desert Stars,
Byron Stingily,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.