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 Kenya and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron 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 The Human League to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Junior Murvin,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Talk Talk,
Eric Dolphy,
Kenny Larkin,
The Standells,
Lungfish,
Yaz,
Joey Negro,
James White and The Blacks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sandy B,
Excepter,
These Immortal Souls,
The Move,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kurtis Blow,
Ituana,
The Knickerbockers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Red Krayola,
Maleditus Sound,
Pere Ubu,
KRS-One,
Fad Gadget,
Jacob Miller,
Massinfluence,
Monolake,
World's Most,
Sam Rivers,
Q and Not U,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
PIL,
Blancmange,
Animal Collective,
Gong,
Scientists,
The Dave Clark Five,
Silicon Teens,
MC5,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eden Ahbez,
Derrick Morgan,
Average White Band,
The Busters,
Gichy Dan,
Icehouse,
The Detroit Cobras,
Anthony Braxton,
The Cosmic Jokers,
H. Thieme,
Bill Wells,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Quadrant,
Slave,
Rotary Connection,
Ultimate Spinach,
Idris Muhammad,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wasted Youth,
Letta Mbulu,
Mandrill,
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.