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 Panama and from Seoul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum 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 Dawn Penn 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 The Associates. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jandek,
Deakin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
DNA,
The Count Five,
Mantronix,
Quando Quango,
Janne Schatter,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Amon Düül,
Jeff Mills,
Little Man,
Boredoms,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Stereo Dub,
Bill Wells,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Echospace,
Pantytec,
Alison Limerick,
Kayak,
Fad Gadget,
UT,
Isaac Hayes,
Gang of Four,
The Fugs,
Soul II Soul,
Amon Düül II,
The Dead C,
Sister Nancy,
Bobby Womack,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Morten Harket,
Arab on Radar,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Raincoats,
The Slackers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Detroit Cobras,
Iggy Pop,
Marvin Gaye,
The Buckinghams,
The Smoke,
Au Pairs,
Tommy Roe,
John Foxx,
Fear,
Black Sheep,
Crime,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Human League,
Lungfish,
Masters at Work,
Skarface,
Gong,
Black Bananas,
Harry Pussy,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.