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 Suriname and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Peter & Gordon to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Faust,
Moebius,
The Fall,
a-ha,
Black Flag,
48th St. Collective,
10cc,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Toasters,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scion,
The Skatalites,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Y Pants,
Bobby Sherman,
Sonic Youth,
Tom Boy,
Alice Coltrane,
Toni Rubio,
The Standells,
Harmonia,
The Detroit Cobras,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rod Modell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ken Boothe,
Smog,
Television Personalities,
Visage,
Panda Bear,
Ornette Coleman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gap Band,
Dawn Penn,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Michelle Simonal,
Roxy Music,
Livin' Joy,
Arab on Radar,
Mandrill,
ABC,
Liliput,
Tropical Tobacco,
Fela Kuti,
Alison Limerick,
The Selecter,
Icehouse,
La Düsseldorf,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Blues Magoos,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fire Engines,
Youth Brigade,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Boredoms,
The Techniques,
Jawbox,
Sister Nancy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Surgeon,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.