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 Iran and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Curtis Mayfield to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Bowie,
Eric Copeland,
Skriet,
Pulsallama,
Stiv Bators,
Quadrant,
MC5,
Derrick Morgan,
Roger Hodgson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marshall Jefferson,
Supertramp,
Anakelly,
Sällskapet,
L. Decosne,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Tim Buckley,
Jacob Miller,
Liliput,
Gil Scott Heron,
Thee Headcoats,
a-ha,
Crash Course in Science,
Little Man,
Pole,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jeff Mills,
Desert Stars,
The Fugs,
The Misunderstood,
Cal Tjader,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Electric Prunes,
The Slackers,
Juan Atkins,
Roxette,
The Leaves,
Black Pus,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dual Sessions,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sex Pistols,
Skaos,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rotary Connection,
Lakeside,
Surgeon,
Bad Manners,
The Motions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Trumans Water,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Altered Images,
Amazonics,
Wire,
Vladislav Delay,
Main Source,
The Gories,
Roxy Music,
Chris Corsano,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.