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 Armenia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe 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 Arthur Verocai to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
ABC,
Maleditus Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ludus,
Shuggie Otis,
Shoche,
The Count Five,
Guru Guru,
Franke,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
PIL,
Tommy Roe,
Quando Quango,
Eric Dolphy,
Marvin Gaye,
Black Pus,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Vainqueur,
Country Teasers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
DJ Sneak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Iggy Pop,
Harmonia,
CMW,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sällskapet,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Anakelly,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Metal Thangz,
MDC,
Jacob Miller,
These Immortal Souls,
Gerry Rafferty,
Smog,
Jerry's Kids,
The Evens,
B.T. Express,
Pagans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pulsallama,
The Index,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Neu!,
Theoretical Girls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
48th St. Collective,
Parry Music,
Chrome,
Rakim,
The Doors,
The Music Machine,
John Foxx,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Kinks,
AZ,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.