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 Norway and from Mexico City.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Chrome to the jazz 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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Tom Boy,
Prince Buster,
Kerri Chandler,
Boz Scaggs,
Neil Young,
Lakeside,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tomorrow,
The Litter,
The Monochrome Set,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Harmonia,
Reagan Youth,
The Real Kids,
Banda Bassotti,
the Slits,
Skarface,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Flag,
Chris Corsano,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Little Man,
New Age Steppers,
One Last Wish,
Ronnie Foster,
Aural Exciters,
Fela Kuti,
Hot Snakes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yazoo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camberwell Now,
E-Dancer,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Modern Lovers,
The Moleskins,
Franke,
cv313,
The Velvet Underground,
Sun City Girls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Amon Düül II,
The Residents,
Wasted Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
UT,
Eurythmics,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sexual Harrassment,
Goldenarms,
Moss Icon,
Dual Sessions,
the Human League,
The Black Dice,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Zeros,
Tres Demented,
Alphaville,
Delta 5,
Excepter,
Deadbeat,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.