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 Papua New Guinea and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Yellowson to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Sarah Menescal,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Vogues,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Todd Terry,
Make Up,
Bootsy Collins,
Delta 5,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Silicon Teens,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crime,
The Fugs,
Echospace,
Sun City Girls,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Au Pairs,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Bar-Kays,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Zapp,
MDC,
B.T. Express,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pet Shop Boys,
Heaven 17,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Derrick May,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gil Scott Heron,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jimmy McGriff,
Flipper,
Rites of Spring,
Gong,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ronan,
Swans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
OOIOO,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Grass Roots,
Shoche,
Neu!,
DNA,
The Seeds,
Surgeon,
Spoonie Gee,
Cybotron,
Loose Ends,
Hardrive,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Smiths,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Selecter,
Skarface,
Barrington Levy,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.