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 Portugal and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes 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 ABBA to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Ornette Coleman,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Wake,
Sandy B,
Alison Limerick,
Eli Mardock,
Los Fastidios,
Soft Cell,
The Vogues,
Sonny Sharrock,
Neil Young,
Isaac Hayes,
a-ha,
Unrelated Segments,
Eric Copeland,
The Blues Magoos,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ludus,
Traffic Nightmare,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Velvet Underground,
Archie Shepp,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Golliwogs,
Silicon Teens,
Toni Rubio,
The Grass Roots,
Basic Channel,
David Bowie,
Derrick Morgan,
The Human League,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Pus,
Donald Byrd,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soulsonic Force,
Echospace,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Audionom,
Todd Rundgren,
Dennis Brown,
Bang On A Can,
Nik Kershaw,
AZ,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tim Buckley,
Hoover,
Cybotron,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Max Romeo,
Arthur Verocai,
Amazonics,
Bill Wells,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pharoah Sanders,
Flipper,
Bauhaus,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Names,
10cc,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
You don't know what you really want.
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.