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 Albania and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Chris & Cosey to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Normal,
Kool Moe Dee,
Young Marble Giants,
Lebanon Hanover,
Radiohead,
Nils Olav,
Minnie Riperton,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Move,
Camberwell Now,
Malaria!,
Althea and Donna,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rekid,
Ultravox,
Rod Modell,
Silicon Teens,
Harmonia,
Freddie Wadling,
Eric Copeland,
Loose Ends,
The Blues Magoos,
Agitation Free,
Stockholm Monsters,
Chris & Cosey,
Newcleus,
Derrick May,
The Evens,
The Cure,
Minny Pops,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Brand Nubian,
Flipper,
Reuben Wilson,
Second Layer,
Magma,
Khruangbin,
the Association,
Isaac Hayes,
PIL,
Ken Boothe,
Sugar Minott,
The Offenders,
Brass Construction,
The Fuzztones,
Black Pus,
Funkadelic,
Johnny Clarke,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Henry Cow,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mandrill,
Bad Manners,
Jerry's Kids,
Banda Bassotti,
The Last Poets,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mars,
Hasil Adkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Birthday Party,
Nik Kershaw,
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana.
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.