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 Turkey and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Black Flag to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Sam Rivers,
Hasil Adkins,
The Count Five,
FM Einheit,
Talk Talk,
The New Christs,
Erasure,
Skriet,
the Soft Cell,
Dennis Brown,
Man Eating Sloth,
Arthur Verocai,
Yaz,
10cc,
Motorama,
Colin Newman,
Lou Reed,
Jacob Miller,
Skarface,
David Axelrod,
Maleditus Sound,
Anthony Braxton,
Bill Wells,
Patti Smith,
Neu!,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Cowsills,
The Selecter,
Pulsallama,
Popol Vuh,
Thompson Twins,
Gang Starr,
KRS-One,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eric Copeland,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scientists,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kool Moe Dee,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Deepchord,
New York Dolls,
Archie Shepp,
Anakelly,
Stiv Bators,
Can,
Jeff Mills,
Crash Course in Science,
Average White Band,
The Divine Comedy,
E-Dancer,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Eric Dolphy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dark Day,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
PIL,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.