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 Ukraine and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 II Soul to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator 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 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?
Nik Kershaw,
Gregory Isaacs,
CMW,
Pet Shop Boys,
Harmonia,
Todd Terry,
Eurythmics,
Chrome,
Das Ding,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Happenings,
Yusef Lateef,
Fugazi,
Sound Behaviour,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Zero Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
Arcadia,
Skarface,
Cameo,
Hashim,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Whodini,
Essential Logic,
Wally Richardson,
Roy Ayers,
Deakin,
Sun City Girls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Brass Construction,
David Bowie,
Hoover,
Ohio Players,
Al Stewart,
The Martian,
Cluster,
The Velvet Underground,
Joyce Sims,
June Days,
Erasure,
cv313,
LL Cool J,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Derrick Morgan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sparks,
Animal Collective,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mo-Dettes,
Iggy Pop,
Scion,
The Wake,
The Pretty Things,
Black Pus,
Andrew Hill,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Khruangbin,
Adolescents,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.