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 Moldova and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Scan 7 to the crunk 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Dave Gahan,
Amon Düül,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Shuggie Otis,
Gong,
The Five Americans,
Judy Mowatt,
Michelle Simonal,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Yazoo,
Ronan,
Can,
John Cale,
The Victims,
Steve Hackett,
X-102,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hot Snakes,
Jerry's Kids,
Franke,
U.S. Maple,
Aaron Thompson,
Connie Case,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DJ Sneak,
Lightning Bolt,
The Real Kids,
Rites of Spring,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sam Rivers,
Aswad,
UT,
LL Cool J,
Barclay James Harvest,
Joensuu 1685,
June of 44,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brothers Johnson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Graham Central Station,
The Mummies,
X-101,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
JFA,
Warsaw,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Blake Baxter,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Barbara Tucker,
Minutemen,
Panda Bear,
Vladislav Delay,
The Index,
Kurtis Blow,
Pet Shop Boys,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Peter & Gordon,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.