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 Albania and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Nile Rodgers 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 EPMD to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T. Rex 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Howard Jones,
Sun Ra,
Monolake,
OOIOO,
Siglo XX,
the Slits,
X-101,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Moby Grape,
Funky Four + One,
L. Decosne,
Roy Ayers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tom Boy,
Dave Gahan,
Kas Product,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fatback Band,
Sister Nancy,
Rosa Yemen,
Donny Hathaway,
Warren Ellis,
Suicide,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Silicon Teens,
Jawbox,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eli Mardock,
World's Most,
The Dead C,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Standells,
The Litter,
Das Ding,
Tears for Fears,
Swans,
Pole,
Accadde A,
Q and Not U,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lightning Bolt,
Au Pairs,
EPMD,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pere Ubu,
The Human League,
Surgeon,
Sex Pistols,
Hot Snakes,
The Monks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Big Daddy Kane,
Niagra,
Delta 5,
Agitation Free,
The Birthday Party,
Jandek,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.