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 Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 The Victims to the rap 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 The Count Five. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Bootsy Collins,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jeff Mills,
John Holt,
Negative Approach,
Neu!,
The Misunderstood,
Flipper,
David Axelrod,
Section 25,
Shuggie Otis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Five Americans,
Zero Boys,
Groovy Waters,
The Blackbyrds,
The Electric Prunes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Swans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The United States of America,
Mars,
Icehouse,
Brothers Johnson,
Sällskapet,
Kerrie Biddell,
Animal Collective,
Charles Mingus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
David Bowie,
The Residents,
Theoretical Girls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Terry Callier,
Frankie Knuckles,
Q65,
The Remains,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Intrusion,
Metal Thangz,
Lucky Dragons,
Franke,
Tomorrow,
Janne Schatter,
Procol Harum,
Lindisfarne,
EPMD,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camouflage,
Massinfluence,
Cluster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Anthony Braxton,
Q and Not U,
Monks,
Man Parrish,
Supertramp,
The Red Krayola,
Youth Brigade,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.