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 Turkey and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 rhodes 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 Archie Shepp to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Fortunes,
The Associates,
The Cure,
Swans,
Yellowson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ponytail,
Agitation Free,
the Normal,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
James White and The Blacks,
Absolute Body Control,
Chris & Cosey,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Michelle Simonal,
Talk Talk,
Soul Sonic Force,
Intrusion,
Severed Heads,
Panda Bear,
Reuben Wilson,
Leonard Cohen,
The Smoke,
Goldenarms,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kas Product,
The Neon Judgement,
the Slits,
Fugazi,
The Doors,
Yaz,
Avey Tare,
Donny Hathaway,
The Music Machine,
Mantronix,
The Modern Lovers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Zero Boys,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bad Manners,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Siglo XX,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Soulsonic Force,
Amazonics,
Sarah Menescal,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Dead Boys,
Joe Smooth,
Wings,
The Grass Roots,
Ossler,
FM Einheit,
Little Man,
The Names,
The Moleskins,
Wolf Eyes,
Sam Rivers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.