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 Korea North and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin 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 Easy Going to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fat Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Au Pairs,
Judy Mowatt,
The Mummies,
Ten City,
Electric Prunes,
The Invisible,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scion,
Young Marble Giants,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Stooges,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Blues Magoos,
Joyce Sims,
The United States of America,
Neil Young,
Niagra,
Dual Sessions,
Section 25,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joy Division,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Talk Talk,
Second Layer,
Letta Mbulu,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kaleidoscope,
The Wake,
Bobby Byrd,
Nico,
Basic Channel,
Brass Construction,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zapp,
Charles Mingus,
Alison Limerick,
Trumans Water,
The Neon Judgement,
Clear Light,
The New Christs,
Junior Murvin,
Qualms,
Iggy Pop,
Carl Craig,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
X-101,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lalann,
Surgeon,
Todd Terry,
Rotary Connection,
Minnie Riperton,
Toni Rubio,
Audionom,
The Gories,
The Sound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Blake Baxter,
The Misunderstood,
Index,
Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Todd Rundgren,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.