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 Niger and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Ohio Players to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Aswad,
Isaac Hayes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Offenders,
The Selecter,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Circle Jerks,
Brass Construction,
The Music Machine,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Hashim,
Bang On A Can,
The Smiths,
Magma,
Moss Icon,
Arthur Verocai,
The Misunderstood,
Anthony Braxton,
Neil Young,
Basic Channel,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
A Certain Ratio,
kango's stein massive,
The Motions,
Intrusion,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Neon Judgement,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tears for Fears,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gladiators,
Dennis Brown,
Cameo,
The Standells,
Erasure,
Main Source,
Altered Images,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Eli Mardock,
The Angels of Light,
Stereo Dub,
Technova,
Pylon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kaleidoscope,
Bob Dylan,
Ken Boothe,
Scan 7,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Stetsasonic,
Yellowson,
the Germs,
Accadde A,
Throbbing Gristle,
Danielle Patucci,
Monolake,
Cybotron,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.