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 Ethiopia and from Lille.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Eli Mardock to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a U.S. Maple record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Matthew Bourne,
Isaac Hayes,
Yellowson,
Soft Machine,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Joe Smooth,
New Age Steppers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Fugazi,
Jerry's Kids,
The Five Americans,
Negative Approach,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
U.S. Maple,
June of 44,
Das Ding,
The Blackbyrds,
Ornette Coleman,
The Walker Brothers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Freddie Wadling,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brick,
Minnie Riperton,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Procol Harum,
Television,
Scrapy,
Ponytail,
Black Sheep,
T.S.O.L.,
Average White Band,
Max Romeo,
Archie Shepp,
Saccharine Trust,
Tears for Fears,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
CMW,
A Certain Ratio,
Robert Hood,
The Pretty Things,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cymande,
Alton Ellis,
Zero Boys,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Neu!,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Monochrome Set,
Kevin Saunderson,
Swans,
X-Ray Spex,
Ten City,
R.M.O.,
The Remains,
Derrick May,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lucky Dragons,
Lakeside,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.