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 Lithuania and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Zapp to the disco 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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alton Ellis,
The Gun Club,
Black Flag,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dark Day,
Marshall Jefferson,
Al Stewart,
Deakin,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pantytec,
Soul II Soul,
A Certain Ratio,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Cluster,
Hoover,
OOIOO,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Livin' Joy,
L. Decosne,
Nas,
Q65,
The Music Machine,
The Trojans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Funkadelic,
The Toasters,
Patti Smith,
Organ,
Camouflage,
Magazine,
Dual Sessions,
Grauzone,
Black Pus,
The Selecter,
Porter Ricks,
Danielle Patucci,
The Associates,
Gang Gang Dance,
Iggy Pop,
Jeff Lynne,
Boredoms,
Parry Music,
Ronan,
Shuggie Otis,
Tomorrow,
KRS-One,
Traffic Nightmare,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Moebius,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Human League,
The Fortunes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Black Dice,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Amon Düül,
Roxette,
Black Moon,
the Swans,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.