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 Cambodia and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Beijing.
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 David Bowie 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 Curtis Mayfield 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 The Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
The Dead C,
Flipper,
Sister Nancy,
Grauzone,
Roxy Music,
The Slits,
Dual Sessions,
Joe Finger,
Fat Boys,
Drive Like Jehu,
Yaz,
Eli Mardock,
The Fugs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brand Nubian,
Gichy Dan,
Ice-T,
Dark Day,
Soul II Soul,
DNA,
Curtis Mayfield,
Tears for Fears,
Brick,
Minor Threat,
The Evens,
The Gap Band,
The Human League,
The Skatalites,
The Associates,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scratch Acid,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Negative Approach,
The Fire Engines,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jandek,
Jeff Mills,
Stiv Bators,
the Human League,
This Heat,
Bill Near,
Pierre Henry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Charles Mingus,
The Motions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Shadows of Knight,
Piero Umiliani,
Throbbing Gristle,
Los Fastidios,
Joy Division,
John Foxx,
Quadrant,
Gastr Del Sol,
Black Sheep,
Glenn Branca,
Kenny Larkin,
The Detroit Cobras,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Sonics,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.