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 United Kingdom and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 clarinet 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 Traffic Nightmare to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Flag record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Barrington Levy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ohio Players,
Radio Birdman,
Albert Ayler,
Symarip,
Rotary Connection,
Loose Ends,
Aaron Thompson,
Ludus,
The Moody Blues,
Brand Nubian,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hashim,
K-Klass,
The Walker Brothers,
World's Most,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Section 25,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Liliput,
The Litter,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ornette Coleman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Y Pants,
Negative Approach,
James White and The Blacks,
Technova,
Black Moon,
Skarface,
Guru Guru,
Bobby Byrd,
Accadde A,
KRS-One,
Soft Machine,
Mo-Dettes,
the Germs,
the Slits,
Vainqueur,
Brass Construction,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bob Dylan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ice-T,
The American Breed,
The Leaves,
Monolake,
the Fania All-Stars,
H. Thieme,
The Durutti Column,
Sonic Youth,
Nas,
Lalann,
MC5,
Chrome,
Mary Jane Girls,
Shoche,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Cure,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.