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 Laos and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 Section 25 to the funk 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
China Crisis,
Erykah Badu,
Alphaville,
Whodini,
Symarip,
Zero Boys,
Sam Rivers,
Groovy Waters,
Liliput,
Das Ding,
Section 25,
The Techniques,
Iggy Pop,
Ken Boothe,
Soul II Soul,
E-Dancer,
Ten City,
The Music Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
Prince Buster,
Echospace,
The Durutti Column,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nils Olav,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fuzztones,
Gong,
Bobby Sherman,
Unrelated Segments,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Wasted Youth,
Johnny Clarke,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Loose Ends,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Gap Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Slits,
Todd Terry,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brand Nubian,
Derrick May,
Patti Smith,
the Slits,
Terrestrial Tones,
Brothers Johnson,
Lyres,
Susan Cadogan,
Quantec,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sugar Minott,
Barbara Tucker,
Depeche Mode,
The Monks,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jerry's Kids,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.