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 Uganda and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Qualms to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Harry Pussy,
John Coltrane,
The Mojo Men,
The Stooges,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Quantec,
Main Source,
U.S. Maple,
LL Cool J,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
June Days,
Soft Machine,
The Leaves,
X-102,
Roy Ayers,
Q and Not U,
Donny Hathaway,
Chrome,
Wasted Youth,
Neil Young,
John Cale,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Black Pus,
Frankie Knuckles,
Johnny Clarke,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Animal Collective,
Eric B and Rakim,
kango's stein massive,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nico,
The Raincoats,
Cymande,
The Wake,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ponytail,
Flash Fearless,
Make Up,
Skaos,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ludus,
Crispian St. Peters,
Freddie Wadling,
Amazonics,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sparks,
Angry Samoans,
Sällskapet,
Drexciya,
Roxette,
The United States of America,
Arthur Verocai,
The Fugs,
The Victims,
Joensuu 1685,
Jeff Lynne,
Wally Richardson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.