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 Micronesia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 UT to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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 Normal,
Black Bananas,
Erykah Badu,
Dorothy Ashby,
Depeche Mode,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Cale,
Lower 48,
Chris & Cosey,
Siglo XX,
Metal Thangz,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Joe Finger,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sister Nancy,
The Birthday Party,
The Golliwogs,
Quadrant,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kas Product,
Davy DMX,
Pierre Henry,
Funkadelic,
Nik Kershaw,
Main Source,
David Bowie,
Magazine,
The Victims,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Whodini,
T.S.O.L.,
Leonard Cohen,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ponytail,
Black Moon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Suburban Knight,
F. McDonald,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Janne Schatter,
Throbbing Gristle,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Todd Terry,
The Monochrome Set,
The Skatalites,
Isaac Hayes,
Godley & Creme,
The Gun Club,
Brass Construction,
Swans,
This Heat,
E-Dancer,
Ultravox,
Sun Ra,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lungfish,
Tropical Tobacco,
Amon Düül,
Oneida,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.