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 Norway and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Shanghai.
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 808 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 Eden Ahbez 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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
Monks,
Godley & Creme,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pharoah Sanders,
Surgeon,
JFA,
Parry Music,
Slave,
The Index,
Scott Walker,
Sound Behaviour,
The Saints,
Jeff Mills,
Au Pairs,
Lightning Bolt,
The Searchers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Essential Logic,
The Evens,
Flash Fearless,
Cluster,
Pole,
Letta Mbulu,
Robert Görl,
Eurythmics,
Janne Schatter,
Kerri Chandler,
Hot Snakes,
the Association,
Man Eating Sloth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Chrome,
Ronnie Foster,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jacques Brel,
Matthew Halsall,
Inner City,
Trumans Water,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Blackbyrds,
Hoover,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
cv313,
Tres Demented,
Technova,
Rakim,
New York Dolls,
Siglo XX,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Talk Talk,
Altered Images,
Jerry's Kids,
KRS-One,
Judy Mowatt,
Sun City Girls,
Scientists,
Soft Cell,
Camouflage,
Eli Mardock,
Soul II Soul,
Gang Starr,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.