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 Portugal and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Isaac Hayes to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Cure,
the Slits,
Inner City,
The Gun Club,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Fall,
the Human League,
Davy DMX,
Symarip,
the Germs,
Accadde A,
Adolescents,
Bobby Womack,
The Monks,
Blake Baxter,
The Detroit Cobras,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
ABBA,
Mission of Burma,
Derrick Morgan,
Al Stewart,
Roxy Music,
Porter Ricks,
Babytalk,
Brass Construction,
Skaos,
Jacques Brel,
The Kinks,
Eve St. Jones,
Simply Red,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Donald Byrd,
Brothers Johnson,
Joe Finger,
John Foxx,
Nik Kershaw,
Bill Wells,
LL Cool J,
Saccharine Trust,
Man Parrish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Agent Orange,
Blossom Toes,
David McCallum,
Supertramp,
Fluxion,
Leonard Cohen,
Iggy Pop,
Scion,
Reagan Youth,
The Young Rascals,
The Beau Brummels,
The Barracudas,
Joey Negro,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.