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 Niger and from London.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 theremin 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 Youth Brigade to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K 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?
Second Layer,
Magazine,
Wire,
Ice-T,
Sexual Harrassment,
L. Decosne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mission of Burma,
Pantytec,
Average White Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Cecil Taylor,
Grey Daturas,
Suicide,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Suburban Knight,
Can,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kerri Chandler,
Roxy Music,
DJ Style,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
X-102,
Derrick Morgan,
The Tremeloes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Fortunes,
Main Source,
Don Cherry,
Simply Red,
Theoretical Girls,
Kas Product,
Slave,
New Order,
Aloha Tigers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Prince Buster,
Tres Demented,
Max Romeo,
a-ha,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Index,
David Bowie,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Minnie Riperton,
Soul II Soul,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Massinfluence,
The Young Rascals,
Guru Guru,
Lindisfarne,
Erykah Badu,
Make Up,
David Axelrod,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nik Kershaw,
Pharoah Sanders,
cv313,
Dark Day,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.