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 Iran and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Severed Heads to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David McCallum,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Vainqueur,
The Selecter,
A Certain Ratio,
The Litter,
Scion,
Basic Channel,
Soul Sonic Force,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Harmonia,
Radiohead,
Moss Icon,
CMW,
Traffic Nightmare,
Mandrill,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tears for Fears,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eric Copeland,
Q and Not U,
UT,
Rufus Thomas,
Animal Collective,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lindisfarne,
Audionom,
The American Breed,
Suburban Knight,
Oneida,
Jimmy McGriff,
New Order,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
LL Cool J,
Loose Ends,
The Martian,
Todd Terry,
The Trojans,
John Holt,
Kas Product,
the Fania All-Stars,
Supertramp,
Stereo Dub,
Radiopuhelimet,
John Coltrane,
Crash Course in Science,
Lucky Dragons,
Depeche Mode,
Smog,
Boredoms,
Thompson Twins,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dead Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Human League,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cameo,
Angry Samoans,
The Dirtbombs,
Davy DMX,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
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.