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 Eritrea and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 synthesizer 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 The Gap Band to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Erasure,
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
The Raincoats,
Skaos,
The Cowsills,
Ronan,
Bronski Beat,
Camberwell Now,
8 Eyed Spy,
Symarip,
AZ,
K-Klass,
Swans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lindisfarne,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ronnie Foster,
The Black Dice,
Nils Olav,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Patti Smith,
Nico,
F. McDonald,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Smiths,
Jeff Lynne,
The American Breed,
Johnny Clarke,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bootsy Collins,
Lakeside,
Nas,
Technova,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Stooges,
Fad Gadget,
Brass Construction,
X-102,
The Blues Magoos,
PIL,
Man Parrish,
H. Thieme,
DNA,
The Buckinghams,
Robert Wyatt,
Inner City,
D'Angelo,
Blancmange,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
a-ha,
Rotary Connection,
Warren Ellis,
Stiv Bators,
ABBA,
Jandek,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.