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 Korea North and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Electric Prunes to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Michelle Simonal,
U.S. Maple,
Cybotron,
Minutemen,
Scion,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bobby Womack,
Theoretical Girls,
Groovy Waters,
Peter and Kerry,
Joey Negro,
The Index,
The Martian,
Peter & Gordon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Model 500,
Barclay James Harvest,
Average White Band,
Boredoms,
Rakim,
10cc,
The Slits,
Rod Modell,
Tim Buckley,
Ten City,
The Velvet Underground,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sugar Minott,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sixth Finger,
Trumans Water,
Lou Christie,
Bobby Byrd,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Shadows of Knight,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rekid,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Human League,
Popol Vuh,
Mary Jane Girls,
Letta Mbulu,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sister Nancy,
The Vogues,
Soft Machine,
Cecil Taylor,
the Sonics,
Oblivians,
Soft Cell,
Mars,
LL Cool J,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camouflage,
The Associates,
OOIOO,
Parry Music,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.