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 Canada and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 808 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 The Motions to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Barclay James Harvest,
Joe Smooth,
The Fugs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Country Teasers,
Silicon Teens,
John Lydon,
Barbara Tucker,
Agitation Free,
Stetsasonic,
The Doobie Brothers,
Albert Ayler,
Mandrill,
The Moleskins,
Chris & Cosey,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Altered Images,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Fugazi,
Royal Trux,
Faraquet,
Duran Duran,
Scientists,
Henry Cow,
Roxette,
Rakim,
Nico,
The Martian,
Banda Bassotti,
Ten City,
Rites of Spring,
Robert Görl,
The Pretty Things,
Blancmange,
Sarah Menescal,
The Pop Group,
The Doors,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker,
Slick Rick,
DJ Sneak,
Sugar Minott,
Bobby Sherman,
Excepter,
Ohio Players,
Bob Dylan,
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Shadows of Knight,
Main Source,
Carl Craig,
Eric Dolphy,
L. Decosne,
Aaron Thompson,
The Associates,
Tubeway Army,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.