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 Peru and from Shanghai.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity 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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Donny Hathaway,
Dual Sessions,
Neu!,
The Monochrome Set,
Ohio Players,
Terry Callier,
Moebius,
Nas,
U.S. Maple,
Q and Not U,
Fatback Band,
L. Decosne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Altered Images,
Sister Nancy,
Schoolly D,
John Lydon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
AZ,
Kool Moe Dee,
Moss Icon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scan 7,
Sunsets and Hearts,
LL Cool J,
Joe Smooth,
Jerry's Kids,
Matthew Halsall,
JFA,
Neil Young,
Cal Tjader,
Franke,
New Order,
This Heat,
Bobby Womack,
the Human League,
Steve Hackett,
Roxy Music,
Yellowson,
Eddi Front,
Jacob Miller,
Mo-Dettes,
Quadrant,
These Immortal Souls,
Robert Wyatt,
Rekid,
The Red Krayola,
Agitation Free,
Jeru the Damaja,
Magazine,
Guru Guru,
Symarip,
Dorothy Ashby,
DNA,
Wasted Youth,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Cure,
ABBA,
kango's stein massive,
The Skatalites,
Model 500,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.