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 Taiwan and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 marimba 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 Maleditus Sound to the crunk 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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Section 25,
Sound Behaviour,
The J.B.'s,
Nick Fraelich,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Josef K,
The Cure,
The Dave Clark Five,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Erasure,
Hardrive,
The Sound,
Hot Snakes,
H. Thieme,
Terry Callier,
Livin' Joy,
Mars,
Derrick Morgan,
Zero Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Malaria!,
Joy Division,
The Smiths,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Last Poets,
The Five Americans,
Tropical Tobacco,
Motorama,
Cymande,
Althea and Donna,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
New York Dolls,
Brass Construction,
Morten Harket,
Infiniti,
Joyce Sims,
Alton Ellis,
The Sisters of Mercy,
David Bowie,
Rufus Thomas,
The Trojans,
Swans,
Parry Music,
The United States of America,
Ultravox,
The Mojo Men,
Gang Gang Dance,
Model 500,
The Angels of Light,
Magma,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sällskapet,
Echospace,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Q and Not U,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Spandau Ballet,
Black Pus,
Nico,
Fort Wilson Riot,
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.