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 Afghanistan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Avey Tare to the techno 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Don Cherry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Crispian St. Peters,
Slave,
Marmalade,
Malaria!,
Icehouse,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nas,
Dead Boys,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Associates,
Camouflage,
Japan,
PIL,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Pop Group,
Los Fastidios,
Main Source,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Youth Brigade,
Black Flag,
Alice Coltrane,
Harpers Bizarre,
Moebius,
Bronski Beat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Vogues,
Boredoms,
Franke,
The Blues Magoos,
Dorothy Ashby,
Theoretical Girls,
Stiv Bators,
Eden Ahbez,
Pantytec,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cecil Taylor,
Altered Images,
Soul Sonic Force,
Urselle,
New Order,
Whodini,
Bobby Sherman,
JFA,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Reuben Wilson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Half Japanese,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Fortunes,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Invisible,
Parry Music,
Crooked Eye,
Joy Division,
The Music Machine,
Agitation Free,
Kaleidoscope,
Arcadia,
Byron Stingily,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.