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 Sierra Leone and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Michael McDonald 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 Essential Logic to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soul Sonic Force,
David Bowie,
T. Rex,
Von Mondo,
the Normal,
Marine Girls,
Quantec,
Marmalade,
Marc Almond,
Mark Hollis,
Frankie Knuckles,
John Foxx,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cheater Slicks,
Lucky Dragons,
Sparks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fluxion,
Jeff Lynne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Altered Images,
Vainqueur,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nirvana,
Pagans,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jacques Brel,
The Kinks,
Nas,
Essential Logic,
The Monochrome Set,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Gap Band,
Intrusion,
The Skatalites,
Letta Mbulu,
Japan,
Laurel Aitken,
The Pop Group,
Tomorrow,
Infiniti,
MC5,
Accadde A,
Deepchord,
Neil Young,
Ituana,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Carl Craig,
Basic Channel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Skarface,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
ABC,
Ice-T,
Black Sheep,
The Doobie Brothers,
One Last Wish,
Yusef Lateef,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.