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 Singapore and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 CMW to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
a-ha,
Jeff Lynne,
Heaven 17,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jandek,
Quando Quango,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Smiths,
Drexciya,
The Stooges,
The Slackers,
Aswad,
H. Thieme,
Lightning Bolt,
Pere Ubu,
Idris Muhammad,
Leonard Cohen,
Young Marble Giants,
Circle Jerks,
Erykah Badu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Martian,
Alphaville,
Deadbeat,
Kurtis Blow,
Smog,
Sun City Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Carl Craig,
Motorama,
Isaac Hayes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Brass Construction,
Gang Green,
Brothers Johnson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Agitation Free,
Rhythm & Sound,
Basic Channel,
Deepchord,
Derrick May,
Joyce Sims,
The Blues Magoos,
The Standells,
Boredoms,
Dawn Penn,
The Golliwogs,
Fugazi,
the Bar-Kays,
Royal Trux,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monochrome Set,
Ten City,
Pantaleimon,
Lou Christie,
ABC,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
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.