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 Brazil and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
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 spring reverb 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 Jandek to the punk 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
UT,
The Five Americans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cramps,
Fat Boys,
Man Eating Sloth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Inner City,
Max Romeo,
In Retrospect,
Rhythm & Sound,
Interpol,
Sonic Youth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Monks,
Angry Samoans,
Oneida,
Brothers Johnson,
The Stooges,
Nirvana,
Steve Hackett,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crime,
John Coltrane,
Sällskapet,
Cheater Slicks,
Country Teasers,
FM Einheit,
Gang Starr,
Wings,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Womack,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gabor Szabo,
Clear Light,
A Certain Ratio,
Throbbing Gristle,
Joyce Sims,
Agitation Free,
John Cale,
Easy Going,
The Golliwogs,
The Fire Engines,
Scott Walker,
The Martian,
Fatback Band,
Todd Terry,
The Motions,
The Last Poets,
DNA,
Excepter,
The Barracudas,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lou Christie,
Oblivians,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kool Moe Dee,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.