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 Armenia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scion to the funk 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Agitation Free,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Panda Bear,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Detroit Cobras,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Zapp,
Electric Prunes,
Kaleidoscope,
Y Pants,
Visage,
Peter and Kerry,
Piero Umiliani,
Au Pairs,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Fall,
Erykah Badu,
The Moleskins,
Black Flag,
Davy DMX,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bauhaus,
Whodini,
Procol Harum,
David Axelrod,
Ludus,
Vainqueur,
Joe Finger,
X-Ray Spex,
Television Personalities,
Porter Ricks,
LL Cool J,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Royal Trux,
Country Teasers,
The Barracudas,
The Monks,
John Holt,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tomorrow,
Parry Music,
Blossom Toes,
Minny Pops,
The Zeros,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Spoonie Gee,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Electric Prunes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ohio Players,
Minutemen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rod Modell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Severed Heads,
Ronnie Foster,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.