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 Switzerland and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum 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 John Cale to the punk 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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Selector Dub Narcotic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Theoretical Girls,
Subhumans,
Matthew Bourne,
Qualms,
Bizarre Inc.,
David Bowie,
Wire,
John Foxx,
Pantaleimon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joy Division,
The Young Rascals,
Visage,
Mr. Review,
Roger Hodgson,
Symarip,
The Angels of Light,
Hashim,
Man Eating Sloth,
Glambeats Corp.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Gang Dance,
Amon Düül,
Bill Wells,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Zapp,
Fat Boys,
Ohio Players,
Throbbing Gristle,
Unrelated Segments,
Porter Ricks,
Eric Copeland,
Quadrant,
Jawbox,
Underground Resistance,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Khruangbin,
The Blues Magoos,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Modern Lovers,
Oblivians,
Dark Day,
Fear,
Urselle,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Section 25,
Electric Prunes,
The Count Five,
The Wake,
Accadde A,
Roxette,
Radiohead,
Altered Images,
The Mummies,
Brothers Johnson,
E-Dancer,
Jacob Miller,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Morten Harket,
Pierre Henry,
Deakin,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.