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 Solomon Islands and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
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 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 Fania All-Stars to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Sparks,
Motorama,
Donald Byrd,
Marc Almond,
Icehouse,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dawn Penn,
Darondo,
The Fire Engines,
Pantaleimon,
Livin' Joy,
Drexciya,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marvin Gaye,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jerry's Kids,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Residents,
Todd Rundgren,
The Smoke,
Absolute Body Control,
Crispy Ambulance,
Warren Ellis,
Average White Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
cv313,
Glenn Branca,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
EPMD,
The Litter,
Carl Craig,
Section 25,
Joyce Sims,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Angry Samoans,
Marine Girls,
Cecil Taylor,
Barclay James Harvest,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lightning Bolt,
Barrington Levy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Schoolly D,
The Grass Roots,
the Slits,
Ornette Coleman,
X-101,
the Association,
The Gun Club,
Wire,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Urselle,
Zero Boys,
The Star Department,
The Black Dice,
Pole,
OOIOO,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.