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 Papua New Guinea and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 güiro 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 Harmonia to the grime 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Al Stewart,
Letta Mbulu,
EPMD,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Youth Brigade,
The Mummies,
Soft Machine,
Oblivians,
The Invisible,
Erykah Badu,
Sarah Menescal,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Barbara Tucker,
Boz Scaggs,
Joe Finger,
The Divine Comedy,
Trumans Water,
Camberwell Now,
The Gladiators,
Altered Images,
Gregory Isaacs,
Excepter,
Zero Boys,
Piero Umiliani,
Yellowson,
The Durutti Column,
The Names,
Gang of Four,
Mantronix,
Scott Walker,
Hoover,
Erasure,
Scion,
Pussy Galore,
Rhythm & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Albert Ayler,
The Slits,
Jerry's Kids,
Deakin,
Intrusion,
Babytalk,
The Kinks,
Arcadia,
Subhumans,
Underground Resistance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sex Pistols,
Procol Harum,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
Rufus Thomas,
Sällskapet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Angels of Light,
Minor Threat,
Jimmy McGriff,
Supertramp,
Todd Terry,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.