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 Slovenia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rhythm & Sound to the dance 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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
Panda Bear,
Curtis Mayfield,
Maleditus Sound,
The Five Americans,
R.M.O.,
Cheater Slicks,
Electric Prunes,
Joey Negro,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Absolute Body Control,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
FM Einheit,
James White and The Blacks,
Gang of Four,
The Pretty Things,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Clear Light,
Camberwell Now,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Chris Corsano,
Rakim,
Morten Harket,
Juan Atkins,
Vladislav Delay,
Lyres,
Bob Dylan,
Dual Sessions,
The Gap Band,
June Days,
Cluster,
The Stooges,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eddi Front,
Johnny Clarke,
E-Dancer,
Carl Craig,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Qualms,
Nik Kershaw,
Theoretical Girls,
Sam Rivers,
Circle Jerks,
The Toasters,
K-Klass,
The Fugs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cymande,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Modern Lovers,
Scrapy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Avey Tare,
Gregory Isaacs,
Traffic Nightmare,
Deepchord,
The Gories,
Banda Bassotti,
Hardrive,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.