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 China and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 arpeggiator 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 FM Einheit to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Buzzcocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Swans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Slits,
Robert Hood,
Bootsy Collins,
Joey Negro,
Second Layer,
The Skatalites,
Funkadelic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pet Shop Boys,
Negative Approach,
Dual Sessions,
Q and Not U,
Nico,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Panda Bear,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eden Ahbez,
Max Romeo,
Matthew Halsall,
Mandrill,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Grass Roots,
Andrew Hill,
Suburban Knight,
Connie Case,
The Invisible,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Germs,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Evens,
Dawn Penn,
Silicon Teens,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marine Girls,
F. McDonald,
Black Pus,
New Order,
The Slackers,
Bad Manners,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Black Moon,
R.M.O.,
Rites of Spring,
John Holt,
Sugar Minott,
The New Christs,
Eric Copeland,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Fugs,
B.T. Express,
Mars,
The Residents,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.