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 Kyrgyzstan and from Toronto.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Laurel Aitken to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Das Ding,
ABC,
Patti Smith,
Scion,
Black Pus,
Funky Four + One,
Monks,
Janne Schatter,
Organ,
The Offenders,
Negative Approach,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Alison Limerick,
Pharoah Sanders,
Talk Talk,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pere Ubu,
Boz Scaggs,
Jeff Mills,
Lakeside,
Gang of Four,
Royal Trux,
Y Pants,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joensuu 1685,
Hashim,
Charles Mingus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Robert Görl,
Urselle,
Underground Resistance,
Grauzone,
Infiniti,
The Angels of Light,
CMW,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Knickerbockers,
Sight & Sound,
Colin Newman,
Morten Harket,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Donny Hathaway,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mr. Review,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Young Rascals,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aswad,
Sixth Finger,
The Dirtbombs,
The Residents,
Marine Girls,
Rosa Yemen,
The Techniques,
Agitation Free,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.