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 San Marino and from New York.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Gastr Del Sol to the disco 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Metal Thangz,
Girls At Our Best!,
Chris Corsano,
The Offenders,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kas Product,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Dark Day,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
David Bowie,
Accadde A,
The Raincoats,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Mummies,
The Moody Blues,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Tremeloes,
The Gories,
Rakim,
Archie Shepp,
Desert Stars,
ABBA,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marc Almond,
Wire,
The Techniques,
The Cramps,
Smog,
Hoover,
Neil Young,
June of 44,
Joe Finger,
Model 500,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Coltrane,
Jeff Mills,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Neon Judgement,
Alton Ellis,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gang Starr,
Sun City Girls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Vladislav Delay,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Drexciya,
Michelle Simonal,
K-Klass,
Brick,
Lou Christie,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dual Sessions,
The United States of America,
Tres Demented,
Aswad,
Television,
Saccharine Trust,
Lee Hazlewood,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.