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 Malawi and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Grauzone to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
the Fania All-Stars,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joy Division,
Gregory Isaacs,
Colin Newman,
kango's stein massive,
Yaz,
Soul Sonic Force,
Henry Cow,
Godley & Creme,
Slick Rick,
Crooked Eye,
Aural Exciters,
Fugazi,
June of 44,
Eric Copeland,
Erasure,
Marc Almond,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
KRS-One,
Soft Cell,
Hardrive,
The Vogues,
Thompson Twins,
Bill Near,
Cymande,
Country Teasers,
The Birthday Party,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Popol Vuh,
Max Romeo,
The Selecter,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Funky Four + One,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Skarface,
Chrome,
Cal Tjader,
Moebius,
Sex Pistols,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Black Dice,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Michelle Simonal,
Jerry's Kids,
Freddie Wadling,
DNA,
Simply Red,
The Flesh Eaters,
Shuggie Otis,
Mark Hollis,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ronnie Foster,
Marmalade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ornette Coleman,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Absolute Body Control,
Roxette,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.