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 Guinea-Bissau and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the grunge 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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric B and Rakim,
F. McDonald,
Pussy Galore,
Jandek,
The Flesh Eaters,
ABBA,
Avey Tare,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Funky Four + One,
Inner City,
Cecil Taylor,
Flipper,
Janne Schatter,
Deepchord,
Ossler,
Massinfluence,
MC5,
Japan,
Lakeside,
Terrestrial Tones,
Angry Samoans,
John Coltrane,
Kaleidoscope,
The Last Poets,
The Skatalites,
Quantec,
Niagra,
Clear Light,
The Doors,
Scan 7,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Suicide,
Harpers Bizarre,
Anakelly,
Malaria!,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Duran Duran,
Suburban Knight,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mandrill,
Altered Images,
Charles Mingus,
The Neon Judgement,
The Golliwogs,
The Mummies,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Swell Maps,
The Star Department,
Pylon,
The Toasters,
Erasure,
Albert Ayler,
Livin' Joy,
World's Most,
Soft Machine,
OOIOO,
The Count Five,
FM Einheit,
The United States of America,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.