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 Rwanda and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Holger Czukay 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 The Kinks to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Inner City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Delta 5,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Groovy Waters,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
kango's stein massive,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lower 48,
Crime,
The Human League,
Icehouse,
Tom Boy,
The Walker Brothers,
Scrapy,
David McCallum,
The Flesh Eaters,
Basic Channel,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Black Moon,
The Five Americans,
Zapp,
Q65,
Mad Mike,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Roger Hodgson,
Dennis Brown,
Theoretical Girls,
The United States of America,
Scratch Acid,
Ituana,
Sonny Sharrock,
Peter and Kerry,
Marc Almond,
Funkadelic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jeff Mills,
Minutemen,
Loose Ends,
Quantec,
Depeche Mode,
Deepchord,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Doors,
Radiopuhelimet,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Radio Birdman,
Intrusion,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kas Product,
Spoonie Gee,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ponytail,
Lebanon Hanover,
June of 44,
Ohio Players,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Danielle Patucci,
Cheater Slicks,
the Germs,
D'Angelo,
Con Funk Shun,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.