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 Botswana and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 harpsichord 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 Delta 5 to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Smog,
The Smoke,
Q65,
Mandrill,
New Order,
Bang On A Can,
The Toasters,
Derrick May,
Bootsy Collins,
Fort Wilson Riot,
cv313,
Jerry's Kids,
Main Source,
John Coltrane,
Arcadia,
Technova,
Cheater Slicks,
Sandy B,
Mo-Dettes,
Boredoms,
Camouflage,
The Last Poets,
Sixth Finger,
Rotary Connection,
Barclay James Harvest,
Soft Machine,
Letta Mbulu,
Hoover,
Goldenarms,
The Human League,
Trumans Water,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ituana,
Wolf Eyes,
Visage,
Gang Starr,
Barry Ungar,
Glambeats Corp.,
Whodini,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jacques Brel,
Deadbeat,
Delta 5,
Flipper,
Scion,
Roxette,
Sällskapet,
FM Einheit,
Qualms,
Moss Icon,
Animal Collective,
Schoolly D,
Lungfish,
Mars,
X-Ray Spex,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.