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 Italy and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Donald Fagen 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 Grey Daturas to the rock 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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Bobby Byrd,
Derrick Morgan,
Nation of Ulysses,
Moby Grape,
Masters at Work,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Crooked Eye,
Mantronix,
The Velvet Underground,
Jacques Brel,
Yaz,
Brass Construction,
Intrusion,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Black Flag,
Slave,
Metal Thangz,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Susan Cadogan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
June Days,
Peter and Kerry,
Wolf Eyes,
Lyres,
Jeff Lynne,
Qualms,
Jimmy McGriff,
Swell Maps,
Flamin' Groovies,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Chris Corsano,
Delon & Dalcan,
Newcleus,
Junior Murvin,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Unrelated Segments,
Rotary Connection,
The Cure,
Michelle Simonal,
The Star Department,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Subhumans,
ABC,
the Human League,
The Dirtbombs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marvin Gaye,
Aaron Thompson,
The Index,
the Normal,
K-Klass,
Soulsonic Force,
Barbara Tucker,
AZ,
Country Teasers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cluster,
The Electric Prunes,
Shuggie Otis,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.