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 Tanzania and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lalann to the dance 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tom Boy,
Alphaville,
L. Decosne,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lower 48,
Man Parrish,
This Heat,
Clear Light,
The Toasters,
The Angels of Light,
Smog,
One Last Wish,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lyres,
Pet Shop Boys,
Skaos,
Simply Red,
Oneida,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Aswad,
Archie Shepp,
Dawn Penn,
Black Flag,
Bill Wells,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Music Machine,
Liliput,
World's Most,
Roy Ayers,
Joe Smooth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cybotron,
Black Pus,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Searchers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Erykah Badu,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Vainqueur,
Anthony Braxton,
The Motions,
Eric Copeland,
Bob Dylan,
Livin' Joy,
Unwound,
Pantytec,
EPMD,
Letta Mbulu,
Rites of Spring,
Bobby Womack,
Al Stewart,
Spoonie Gee,
Magma,
Leonard Cohen,
The Grass Roots,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.