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 South Africa and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Stooges to the techno 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Theoretical Girls,
Black Sheep,
Jimmy McGriff,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Starr,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Tomorrow,
the Human League,
Soft Machine,
Angry Samoans,
JFA,
Clear Light,
Yazoo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Misunderstood,
Byron Stingily,
Matthew Halsall,
Ken Boothe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Don Cherry,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marshall Jefferson,
Audionom,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kenny Larkin,
Swell Maps,
Unwound,
Dorothy Ashby,
Brand Nubian,
Skriet,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gang of Four,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Freddie Wadling,
Cluster,
DJ Sneak,
Tim Buckley,
The Young Rascals,
Moss Icon,
The Star Department,
Maurizio,
Metal Thangz,
Dark Day,
Prince Buster,
Babytalk,
The Fall,
Terry Callier,
Laurel Aitken,
The New Christs,
Reuben Wilson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sound,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Moby Grape,
Quadrant,
Warsaw,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.