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 Australia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Sonic Youth to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Neu!,
Q65,
The Busters,
Hasil Adkins,
Lakeside,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Charles Mingus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Connie Case,
World's Most,
Lyres,
Gang Green,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Porter Ricks,
Smog,
B.T. Express,
Dawn Penn,
Jerry's Kids,
Subhumans,
Lower 48,
The Blackbyrds,
Gabor Szabo,
Bill Near,
Infiniti,
Sun City Girls,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
ABBA,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Soft Cell,
The Martian,
the Fania All-Stars,
Talk Talk,
Jandek,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Gories,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stereo Dub,
Davy DMX,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Aaron Thompson,
Tropical Tobacco,
Moss Icon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Marc Almond,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Moebius,
Scientists,
Joe Smooth,
Graham Central Station,
Deepchord,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Faust,
Slick Rick,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.