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 Uruguay and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Yusef Lateef to the crunk 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erasure,
Bad Manners,
Make Up,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Raincoats,
Eric Dolphy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lightning Bolt,
Mo-Dettes,
Au Pairs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Fugs,
Black Sheep,
The Standells,
Boredoms,
Barclay James Harvest,
Electric Prunes,
Interpol,
Gong,
Thompson Twins,
Babytalk,
The Motions,
Be Bop Deluxe,
F. McDonald,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Chris Corsano,
Quantec,
The Fire Engines,
The Doors,
Bauhaus,
Sarah Menescal,
The Electric Prunes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Guru Guru,
Thee Headcoats,
Alison Limerick,
Aswad,
The Velvet Underground,
Television Personalities,
The Blackbyrds,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Amazonics,
Dave Gahan,
Juan Atkins,
Peter & Gordon,
Scan 7,
Lucky Dragons,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Los Fastidios,
The Evens,
Black Flag,
Grandmaster Flash,
Graham Central Station,
Ossler,
The Moody Blues,
The United States of America,
Vladislav Delay,
The Skatalites,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.