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 Vanuatu and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 sitar 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Massinfluence,
The Human League,
The Black Dice,
Parry Music,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Erykah Badu,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
EPMD,
Max Romeo,
Nils Olav,
The Martian,
Ice-T,
Aural Exciters,
Bootsy Collins,
Kas Product,
Jacob Miller,
The Last Poets,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sight & Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
The Index,
the Soft Cell,
The Detroit Cobras,
Circle Jerks,
Joyce Sims,
Roxette,
Thompson Twins,
Gong,
The Skatalites,
the Swans,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sister Nancy,
Outsiders,
kango's stein massive,
Ken Boothe,
The Doors,
Alton Ellis,
Skriet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Todd Terry,
Albert Ayler,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Crime,
Moby Grape,
John Holt,
Maleditus Sound,
Slick Rick,
The Evens,
Morten Harket,
Juan Atkins,
Ronan,
the Human League,
The Slits,
Agitation Free,
Prince Buster,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.