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 Japan and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe 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 Swell Maps 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
The Raincoats,
The Trojans,
Howard Jones,
Young Marble Giants,
Lyres,
Rod Modell,
Yazoo,
Brick,
Steve Hackett,
the Germs,
Black Flag,
Tubeway Army,
The Star Department,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sixth Finger,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dark Day,
Minor Threat,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brothers Johnson,
The Move,
Camberwell Now,
A Certain Ratio,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Icehouse,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Godley & Creme,
Lalann,
The Sound,
Au Pairs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Cure,
Glenn Branca,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Stooges,
Kerri Chandler,
Marc Almond,
CMW,
Aswad,
ABBA,
Flash Fearless,
The Moleskins,
Heaven 17,
Public Enemy,
Pierre Henry,
Neu!,
Theoretical Girls,
Sun City Girls,
Henry Cow,
Deepchord,
Malaria!,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Saccharine Trust,
Peter and Kerry,
Letta Mbulu,
Cheater Slicks,
Average White Band,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.