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 Dominican Republic and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Nik Kershaw to the electroclash 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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
Godley & Creme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eli Mardock,
Aswad,
The Blues Magoos,
Crooked Eye,
Marcia Griffiths,
Black Bananas,
The Stooges,
Camberwell Now,
Scratch Acid,
Au Pairs,
The Modern Lovers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nik Kershaw,
Eurythmics,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Trojans,
The Move,
Maleditus Sound,
Josef K,
Jeff Mills,
Scott Walker,
Marmalade,
K-Klass,
PIL,
Joe Smooth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tears for Fears,
Youth Brigade,
Davy DMX,
The New Christs,
Derrick May,
Reagan Youth,
Mandrill,
Quadrant,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tropical Tobacco,
Intrusion,
Q and Not U,
Symarip,
Royal Trux,
Don Cherry,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
John Cale,
The Beau Brummels,
Connie Case,
Johnny Osbourne,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Detroit Cobras,
Piero Umiliani,
World's Most,
New Order,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.