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 Russia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Television Personalities,
Parry Music,
Neu!,
Ornette Coleman,
Babytalk,
Fear,
David McCallum,
Connie Case,
Rod Modell,
Ultravox,
Sound Behaviour,
Faust,
Sonny Sharrock,
Blancmange,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
X-101,
The Black Dice,
Alton Ellis,
The Raincoats,
Swell Maps,
Ice-T,
The Monochrome Set,
Joyce Sims,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wire,
Panda Bear,
Gastr Del Sol,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sexual Harrassment,
Arab on Radar,
Isaac Hayes,
Cameo,
Supertramp,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Yazoo,
Max Romeo,
Jeff Mills,
Swans,
Donald Byrd,
The Detroit Cobras,
Maleditus Sound,
Mandrill,
Black Moon,
Blake Baxter,
cv313,
Mad Mike,
Sällskapet,
Don Cherry,
Make Up,
The Golliwogs,
Nico,
the Germs,
Chris & Cosey,
U.S. Maple,
Minutemen,
the Human League,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.