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 Afghanistan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Arab on Radar to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Bowie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Dead Boys,
The Trojans,
Babytalk,
Avey Tare,
Tommy Roe,
Pagans,
EPMD,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Victims,
The Beau Brummels,
The J.B.'s,
Howard Jones,
Neu!,
The Dirtbombs,
This Heat,
Ossler,
Pere Ubu,
Patti Smith,
Popol Vuh,
Half Japanese,
Deakin,
Charles Mingus,
Unwound,
The Wake,
The Star Department,
The Offenders,
Ornette Coleman,
Graham Central Station,
Joey Negro,
The Kinks,
Young Marble Giants,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Swans,
The Toasters,
Nirvana,
Model 500,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Unrelated Segments,
Tomorrow,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fad Gadget,
Brick,
8 Eyed Spy,
CMW,
Gichy Dan,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sight & Sound,
PIL,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Groovy Waters,
Aaron Thompson,
Accadde A,
Altered Images,
the Fania All-Stars,
the Slits,
Warren Ellis,
The Doobie Brothers,
a-ha,
10cc,
Bobby Sherman,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.