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 Ghana and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Scion to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Organ,
JFA,
Subhumans,
Cal Tjader,
Gregory Isaacs,
Moby Grape,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
World's Most,
CMW,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Harry Pussy,
Television,
James White and The Blacks,
B.T. Express,
Easy Going,
The Buckinghams,
Heaven 17,
MDC,
Ossler,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Niagra,
The Count Five,
Josef K,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
OOIOO,
Liliput,
Alton Ellis,
Nik Kershaw,
Marcia Griffiths,
Todd Terry,
The Martian,
Nico,
the Human League,
Eden Ahbez,
Bizarre Inc.,
FM Einheit,
Lakeside,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bad Manners,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Traffic Nightmare,
Derrick Morgan,
Byron Stingily,
Blake Baxter,
The Standells,
The Sonics,
Funkadelic,
Arab on Radar,
Spandau Ballet,
Boredoms,
Maleditus Sound,
China Crisis,
Mad Mike,
Siglo XX,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deakin,
Tom Boy,
Groovy Waters,
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana.
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.