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 Paraguay and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Magma to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Gang of Four,
The Monochrome Set,
MC5,
Archie Shepp,
Skarface,
The Techniques,
EPMD,
Ohio Players,
Neil Young,
Black Sheep,
Smog,
Harry Pussy,
Zapp,
Sexual Harrassment,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Circle Jerks,
The Move,
DNA,
Eddi Front,
Unwound,
Mission of Burma,
Soul II Soul,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rakim,
Byron Stingily,
Niagra,
The Associates,
The Blues Magoos,
Roxette,
Yazoo,
Shoche,
Flamin' Groovies,
Spoonie Gee,
The Standells,
Stetsasonic,
Anthony Braxton,
Cheater Slicks,
ABBA,
Panda Bear,
The Music Machine,
Todd Rundgren,
Tomorrow,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eric Dolphy,
The Doors,
The Evens,
Amon Düül,
Sandy B,
the Swans,
Joy Division,
Janne Schatter,
The Searchers,
Sällskapet,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Moody Blues,
Barbara Tucker,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Das Ding,
Reagan Youth,
Thee Headcoats,
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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.