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 Czech Republic and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Madrid.
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 chamberlin 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the crunk 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Arab on Radar,
Patti Smith,
Kaleidoscope,
Fat Boys,
Underground Resistance,
Newcleus,
Cheater Slicks,
New York Dolls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Clear Light,
The Doobie Brothers,
Aaron Thompson,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang Starr,
Main Source,
Carl Craig,
Gang of Four,
Alison Limerick,
The Knickerbockers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sällskapet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jerry's Kids,
Hardrive,
Unrelated Segments,
Pagans,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Star Department,
Eric Copeland,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Whodini,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Velvet Underground,
Cybotron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Siglo XX,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pharoah Sanders,
Delon & Dalcan,
Porter Ricks,
Hashim,
The Shadows of Knight,
Peter and Kerry,
David Bowie,
Marvin Gaye,
The Happenings,
John Cale,
Slick Rick,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Michelle Simonal,
L. Decosne,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sun Ra,
Silicon Teens,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.