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 Nepal 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Intrusion to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Vladislav Delay,
Oblivians,
Godley & Creme,
the Slits,
Theoretical Girls,
Byron Stingily,
David Axelrod,
Gong,
Faraquet,
Man Parrish,
Wally Richardson,
Althea and Donna,
B.T. Express,
Hot Snakes,
Rites of Spring,
Camouflage,
Cymande,
Lou Reed,
Roxette,
Bootsy Collins,
Quando Quango,
The Smiths,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare,
James White and The Blacks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Blake Baxter,
Sexual Harrassment,
Magma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
L. Decosne,
Fat Boys,
Dark Day,
Freddie Wadling,
The Neon Judgement,
Pantytec,
Moss Icon,
New Age Steppers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
New Order,
The Residents,
Derrick Morgan,
Yellowson,
La Düsseldorf,
Cameo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Agitation Free,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mo-Dettes,
Motorama,
Marvin Gaye,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Kinks,
Ituana,
Intrusion,
Kas Product,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.