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 Qatar and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the techno 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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?
Todd Terry,
Supertramp,
Amazonics,
Liliput,
Sam Rivers,
Colin Newman,
David Bowie,
Au Pairs,
Outsiders,
Banda Bassotti,
Public Enemy,
Donny Hathaway,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Stooges,
Tres Demented,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cecil Taylor,
The Litter,
Man Eating Sloth,
Crash Course in Science,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roxette,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Misunderstood,
Television Personalities,
Sugar Minott,
Gang of Four,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Godley & Creme,
The Invisible,
Patti Smith,
The Blackbyrds,
Michelle Simonal,
DJ Sneak,
Scott Walker,
Max Romeo,
Can,
Inner City,
E-Dancer,
Reagan Youth,
The Barracudas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rod Modell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Electric Prunes,
New Order,
Sun Ra,
Bobby Sherman,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Slackers,
Aaron Thompson,
Jeff Lynne,
Aloha Tigers,
Scrapy,
The Associates,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camouflage,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.