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 Venezuela and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Radiohead,
The Invisible,
The Selecter,
Erasure,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jerry's Kids,
Sandy B,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Wyatt,
Rod Modell,
Minnie Riperton,
Bob Dylan,
Quando Quango,
Mantronix,
Pole,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Arthur Verocai,
Duran Duran,
The Cramps,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ornette Coleman,
Dawn Penn,
Yaz,
Absolute Body Control,
Easy Going,
Gichy Dan,
KRS-One,
AZ,
Flipper,
Main Source,
Mark Hollis,
Alice Coltrane,
Gastr Del Sol,
Funky Four + One,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Davy DMX,
Kerrie Biddell,
Wally Richardson,
Lindisfarne,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Minny Pops,
Terry Callier,
Gil Scott Heron,
Q65,
Peter & Gordon,
Half Japanese,
Kaleidoscope,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.