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 Somalia and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Audionom to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Fatback Band,
Monks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Curtis Mayfield,
Junior Murvin,
Radiohead,
Ornette Coleman,
Anthony Braxton,
Reagan Youth,
cv313,
The Fire Engines,
Banda Bassotti,
The Martian,
The Smoke,
Kerrie Biddell,
Henry Cow,
Model 500,
New Order,
Aswad,
Pierre Henry,
Colin Newman,
Depeche Mode,
Bad Manners,
Ice-T,
Panda Bear,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cymande,
The Buckinghams,
The Angels of Light,
Simply Red,
Steve Hackett,
Rhythm & Sound,
June Days,
Grey Daturas,
Massinfluence,
The Walker Brothers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Marshall Jefferson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Slick Rick,
The Motions,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Mummies,
The Golliwogs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Suicide,
Brothers Johnson,
Andrew Hill,
Jeff Lynne,
Erykah Badu,
Lebanon Hanover,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Spoonie Gee,
Nirvana,
Chris & Cosey,
Lalann,
Buzzcocks,
Suburban Knight,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.