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 Hungary and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 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 Eden Ahbez to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Moon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
The Vogues,
Donny Hathaway,
Sexual Harrassment,
Y Pants,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Young Rascals,
Marc Almond,
Negative Approach,
Flipper,
Erykah Badu,
The Angels of Light,
Eurythmics,
X-102,
Carl Craig,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Organ,
Mission of Burma,
Stetsasonic,
The Move,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Minor Threat,
Depeche Mode,
Hardrive,
Arcadia,
Bill Wells,
Wolf Eyes,
The Beau Brummels,
The Remains,
Newcleus,
Suicide,
Panda Bear,
Man Parrish,
Crooked Eye,
the Fania All-Stars,
Connie Case,
Mandrill,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Seeds,
Roxette,
Unwound,
Procol Harum,
T.S.O.L.,
The Misunderstood,
OOIOO,
Shoche,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Monochrome Set,
Dave Gahan,
Skaos,
Arab on Radar,
Freddie Wadling,
Pantytec,
Howard Jones,
Joyce Sims,
Ludus,
Niagra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.