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 Russia and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Robert Palmer 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 Scion to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris Corsano record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Moebius,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Freddie Wadling,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Motions,
Zero Boys,
The Stooges,
Masters at Work,
Alphaville,
Interpol,
Reuben Wilson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
John Cale,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pulsallama,
Jandek,
The Music Machine,
Babytalk,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cymande,
Robert Hood,
Skaos,
MC5,
Magazine,
Pagans,
Monolake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Livin' Joy,
Lucky Dragons,
Slave,
8 Eyed Spy,
Aloha Tigers,
Patti Smith,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Alton Ellis,
Audionom,
Angry Samoans,
Sight & Sound,
Funky Four + One,
Donny Hathaway,
Soul Sonic Force,
Au Pairs,
Ultra Naté,
Robert Wyatt,
Television,
Unwound,
Iggy Pop,
Barrington Levy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bill Near,
Bronski Beat,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sparks,
Barry Ungar,
Reagan Youth,
Severed Heads,
Japan,
Malaria!,
Lyres, Lyres, Lyres, Lyres.
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.