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 Korea North and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mumbai.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soul Sonic Force to the funk 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 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 Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kayak,
The Alarm Clocks,
Q and Not U,
The Birthday Party,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kaleidoscope,
Brass Construction,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Junior Murvin,
Matthew Bourne,
Technova,
John Cale,
Mandrill,
Ronan,
Von Mondo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Television Personalities,
The Last Poets,
Amon Düül II,
Fifty Foot Hose,
It's A Beautiful Day,
H. Thieme,
Sister Nancy,
Banda Bassotti,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Zeros,
Thompson Twins,
Gil Scott Heron,
Joyce Sims,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ultravox,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scientists,
The Music Machine,
Heaven 17,
Steve Hackett,
Althea and Donna,
The Skatalites,
Supertramp,
The Offenders,
Al Stewart,
Eve St. Jones,
Joe Smooth,
The Smiths,
John Coltrane,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Yellowson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Surgeon,
Subhumans,
Gerry Rafferty,
Little Man,
Davy DMX,
Unwound,
Sarah Menescal,
Interpol,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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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.