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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin 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 Index to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Grey Daturas,
Warsaw,
Chris & Cosey,
LL Cool J,
Niagra,
Radio Birdman,
The Busters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxette,
Deakin,
Scrapy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Animal Collective,
Ludus,
Erasure,
Liliput,
Kenny Larkin,
Mad Mike,
Suicide,
Hardrive,
The Blues Magoos,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DJ Style,
Pet Shop Boys,
Thee Headcoats,
Boogie Down Productions,
New Order,
Gichy Dan,
The J.B.'s,
The Seeds,
John Lydon,
Reagan Youth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kayak,
Brick,
Neil Young,
Warren Ellis,
Roy Ayers,
Nas,
Brand Nubian,
Eden Ahbez,
Grauzone,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hashim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Patti Smith,
Jimmy McGriff,
Howard Jones,
The Pop Group,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wally Richardson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Monks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Letta Mbulu,
Model 500,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.