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 Dominica and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Houston.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ice-T to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Fat Boys,
Sight & Sound,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gong,
Harmonia,
Audionom,
Albert Ayler,
Masters at Work,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sun Ra,
Michelle Simonal,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jerry's Kids,
Blancmange,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Graham Central Station,
The Velvet Underground,
Faust,
the Human League,
Bill Wells,
Erykah Badu,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mars,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Hot Snakes,
Simply Red,
Desert Stars,
Fluxion,
Soft Machine,
Sister Nancy,
Jacob Miller,
The Gap Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Moss Icon,
Delta 5,
The Mojo Men,
Morten Harket,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Bar-Kays,
Cluster,
Monolake,
The Durutti Column,
Bush Tetras,
Royal Trux,
Kerri Chandler,
Radiohead,
John Cale,
Underground Resistance,
Aloha Tigers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lee Hazlewood,
Average White Band,
The Barracudas,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nico,
UT,
Sixth Finger,
The Remains,
The Fall,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.