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 Belarus and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord 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 marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Curtis Mayfield,
Groovy Waters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Delta 5,
The Slits,
cv313,
Average White Band,
Pulsallama,
Kool Moe Dee,
Little Man,
Negative Approach,
Prince Buster,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Godley & Creme,
Grandmaster Flash,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hot Snakes,
Cecil Taylor,
Cymande,
Surgeon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Second Layer,
Piero Umiliani,
Yazoo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scion,
Darondo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Barrington Levy,
New Age Steppers,
The Monks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Zeros,
ABC,
Erykah Badu,
Brand Nubian,
Leonard Cohen,
Sandy B,
Alphaville,
John Coltrane,
Charles Mingus,
Ice-T,
Marshall Jefferson,
AZ,
Ultravox,
Harmonia,
In Retrospect,
Scientists,
Con Funk Shun,
Tubeway Army,
Scott Walker,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sight & Sound,
The Human League,
Ten City,
Los Fastidios,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.