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 Yemen and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Panda Bear,
Minnie Riperton,
Ossler,
Ornette Coleman,
Desert Stars,
The Sonics,
Cameo,
DJ Style,
Technova,
Lakeside,
Brass Construction,
Arcadia,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ice-T,
Lungfish,
Metal Thangz,
Kurtis Blow,
Cybotron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sandy B,
Donny Hathaway,
MDC,
Amon Düül II,
Joy Division,
Eric Copeland,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Germs,
The New Christs,
Moebius,
Fear,
Dawn Penn,
Todd Terry,
The Pretty Things,
The Knickerbockers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Drexciya,
Archie Shepp,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ohio Players,
Idris Muhammad,
the Slits,
Skaos,
Andrew Hill,
Morten Harket,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Stockholm Monsters,
OOIOO,
The Monochrome Set,
The Moleskins,
Nick Fraelich,
The Kinks,
Intrusion,
Minutemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.