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 Malta and from Paris.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jacques Brel to the rap 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cameo,
Los Fastidios,
Carl Craig,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Flipper,
Index,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Last Poets,
Radio Birdman,
Altered Images,
Technova,
Kurtis Blow,
Hashim,
Quantec,
Colin Newman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fuzztones,
Intrusion,
Rekid,
The Litter,
Sonny Sharrock,
Y Pants,
Q and Not U,
The Shadows of Knight,
Moby Grape,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Scrapy,
Audionom,
Soft Machine,
The Tremeloes,
Slave,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scott Walker,
The Angels of Light,
Severed Heads,
Albert Ayler,
Girls At Our Best!,
Livin' Joy,
Lyres,
the Swans,
Glenn Branca,
Second Layer,
Kaleidoscope,
Erasure,
CMW,
Von Mondo,
New Order,
The Count Five,
Soulsonic Force,
The Neon Judgement,
Suicide,
Circle Jerks,
Sonic Youth,
The Happenings,
Mary Jane Girls,
Amon Düül II,
The Sound,
Crispy Ambulance,
Maleditus Sound,
David Bowie,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.