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 Serbia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Althea and Donna to the rap 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sexual Harrassment,
Gil Scott Heron,
Shuggie Otis,
Kaleidoscope,
Suburban Knight,
Lower 48,
Lyres,
The Fall,
Rosa Yemen,
The Knickerbockers,
Erykah Badu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Massinfluence,
Circle Jerks,
Delta 5,
Leonard Cohen,
Bizarre Inc.,
Delon & Dalcan,
Althea and Donna,
Hashim,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fluxion,
Stiv Bators,
Dennis Brown,
Yazoo,
The Young Rascals,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soulsonic Force,
Scrapy,
Reagan Youth,
Skarface,
Country Teasers,
The Grass Roots,
Hasil Adkins,
A Certain Ratio,
Donny Hathaway,
Amazonics,
Desert Stars,
Thompson Twins,
Scratch Acid,
The Mummies,
the Soft Cell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bush Tetras,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jacques Brel,
10cc,
Bang On A Can,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sun City Girls,
Cecil Taylor,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kerri Chandler,
Funkadelic,
Cybotron,
Khruangbin,
Bobbi Humphrey,
X-102,
LL Cool J,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.