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 Tajikistan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Silicon Teens to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pussy Galore,
Lyres,
The Zeros,
The Fugs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Letta Mbulu,
Sam Rivers,
The Techniques,
Yazoo,
Marvin Gaye,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Starr,
Patti Smith,
Byron Stingily,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Traffic Nightmare,
Minny Pops,
The Cowsills,
Hasil Adkins,
Tim Buckley,
Thompson Twins,
Procol Harum,
Kayak,
Faust,
The Litter,
Mad Mike,
10cc,
Tom Boy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Aloha Tigers,
Rosa Yemen,
Alton Ellis,
Curtis Mayfield,
Magma,
Pere Ubu,
Arthur Verocai,
Silicon Teens,
Brand Nubian,
Roy Ayers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Desert Stars,
Sex Pistols,
Maurizio,
MC5,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Associates,
Wolf Eyes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare,
The Red Krayola,
David McCallum,
The Sonics,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zapp,
Al Stewart,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.