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 Macedonia and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Todd Rundgren,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Model 500,
Sällskapet,
The Saints,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scott Walker,
Mad Mike,
Accadde A,
Warren Ellis,
F. McDonald,
Outsiders,
Audionom,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marcia Griffiths,
New York Dolls,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ludus,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Eli Mardock,
Nas,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Flesh Eaters,
Swell Maps,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Toasters,
T.S.O.L.,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sister Nancy,
John Holt,
Fatback Band,
Hashim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moss Icon,
Wire,
Ossler,
Sound Behaviour,
Vainqueur,
Roxy Music,
Television,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Yazoo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Blake Baxter,
The Cowsills,
Average White Band,
Arab on Radar,
Newcleus,
Dark Day,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hasil Adkins,
Bobby Womack,
Barrington Levy,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.