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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Public Image Ltd. to the grunge 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Franke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
In Retrospect,
Electric Prunes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Stiv Bators,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Isaac Hayes,
Y Pants,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kenny Larkin,
Morten Harket,
Flash Fearless,
Marc Almond,
Marvin Gaye,
Section 25,
Amon Düül,
Fad Gadget,
Radiopuhelimet,
Traffic Nightmare,
Deadbeat,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Massinfluence,
Lungfish,
Terry Callier,
DNA,
The Five Americans,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scott Walker,
Sound Behaviour,
The Pretty Things,
The Offenders,
48th St. Collective,
Icehouse,
Moby Grape,
Grey Daturas,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Cramps,
Ohio Players,
Theoretical Girls,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The United States of America,
The Toasters,
Sex Pistols,
A Certain Ratio,
Scratch Acid,
Soft Cell,
Bill Near,
Chrome,
Robert Hood,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ronnie Foster,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Shoche,
Magma,
Soft Machine,
Dorothy Ashby,
Idris Muhammad,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.