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 Morocco and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Model 500 to the disco 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 Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ornette Coleman,
New Age Steppers,
La Düsseldorf,
John Cale,
Echospace,
Robert Hood,
Magma,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Spoonie Gee,
Easy Going,
The Cramps,
Make Up,
MDC,
Carl Craig,
Harmonia,
Marshall Jefferson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neu!,
Radiopuhelimet,
Audionom,
Model 500,
UT,
Grauzone,
Accadde A,
Rekid,
EPMD,
The Birthday Party,
Jawbox,
Supertramp,
The Golliwogs,
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Clarke,
Tres Demented,
Underground Resistance,
Gregory Isaacs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Motorama,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Agent Orange,
Pierre Henry,
Mo-Dettes,
Barbara Tucker,
Talk Talk,
Zapp,
Rufus Thomas,
Ohio Players,
AZ,
Donny Hathaway,
Flamin' Groovies,
U.S. Maple,
Scott Walker,
Barry Ungar,
Interpol,
Unwound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Juan Atkins,
Lucky Dragons,
Laurel Aitken,
Crime,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.