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 Benin and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Darondo to the rock 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 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?
kango's stein massive,
Magazine,
Animal Collective,
Scan 7,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Prince Buster,
Rites of Spring,
Gang Starr,
The Five Americans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mr. Review,
The Buckinghams,
Sugar Minott,
The Evens,
Lou Reed,
Sight & Sound,
Funkadelic,
The Leaves,
Anthony Braxton,
Peter & Gordon,
Lyres,
Davy DMX,
Amazonics,
The Slackers,
Quando Quango,
Make Up,
Pharoah Sanders,
Arthur Verocai,
Japan,
The New Christs,
Flash Fearless,
Groovy Waters,
The Misunderstood,
Mad Mike,
Danielle Patucci,
Bad Manners,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eddi Front,
Cheater Slicks,
the Swans,
Guru Guru,
Silicon Teens,
The Birthday Party,
Panda Bear,
The Standells,
Stereo Dub,
Lungfish,
James White and The Blacks,
Yazoo,
Royal Trux,
Theoretical Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Womack,
Aloha Tigers,
Yellowson,
Maleditus Sound,
Suburban Knight,
Kayak,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Skatalites,
Bobby Sherman,
48th St. Collective,
Pagans,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.