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 Poland and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
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 theremin 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 Bobby Byrd to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Eddi Front,
8 Eyed Spy,
Model 500,
Glambeats Corp.,
Todd Rundgren,
the Slits,
Cameo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Zeros,
Kevin Saunderson,
Siglo XX,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Monolake,
Mantronix,
Vladislav Delay,
Swans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Smoke,
Joey Negro,
DNA,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Albert Ayler,
Roxette,
Lalann,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ohio Players,
Connie Case,
Robert Hood,
Sandy B,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Young Rascals,
Crispy Ambulance,
Matthew Bourne,
Juan Atkins,
Jeru the Damaja,
Saccharine Trust,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Wolf Eyes,
Sonic Youth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
MDC,
Outsiders,
The Doors,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Blake Baxter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Piero Umiliani,
Franke,
The Music Machine,
Jerry's Kids,
Arthur Verocai,
Heaven 17,
Eli Mardock,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ken Boothe,
Junior Murvin,
The Blues Magoos,
Aaron Thompson,
KRS-One,
Vainqueur,
Yazoo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.