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 Burkina and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Yusef Lateef to the disco 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
In Retrospect,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Magazine,
Liliput,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bauhaus,
Icehouse,
Connie Case,
Swans,
L. Decosne,
Moby Grape,
Parry Music,
Tubeway Army,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alison Limerick,
ABC,
Cluster,
Slave,
Newcleus,
Joy Division,
The Offenders,
The Mojo Men,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joey Negro,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Motions,
John Foxx,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
DJ Style,
Accadde A,
Drexciya,
Country Teasers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Skaos,
Jawbox,
Excepter,
Darondo,
The Neon Judgement,
Sound Behaviour,
B.T. Express,
Barrington Levy,
Symarip,
Angry Samoans,
Archie Shepp,
The Stooges,
Peter & Gordon,
Pere Ubu,
Infiniti,
Pharoah Sanders,
F. McDonald,
Easy Going,
Sun City Girls,
Jandek,
Peter and Kerry,
Massinfluence,
Alice Coltrane,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.