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 Montenegro and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Moebius to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Red Krayola record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Los Fastidios,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pharoah Sanders,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Essential Logic,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Stooges,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Deadbeat,
Prince Buster,
The Seeds,
Thompson Twins,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Parry Music,
Anthony Braxton,
Faust,
Crooked Eye,
Hot Snakes,
Unrelated Segments,
Morten Harket,
The Cramps,
The Trojans,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Blake Baxter,
Archie Shepp,
The Busters,
Alton Ellis,
Joey Negro,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
the Human League,
Surgeon,
Kaleidoscope,
The Young Rascals,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soft Machine,
AZ,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Stereo Dub,
Underground Resistance,
Nirvana,
Moss Icon,
Sun City Girls,
Sex Pistols,
Agitation Free,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Barclay James Harvest,
Maurizio,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pylon,
Dead Boys,
Make Up,
The Count Five,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Peter & Gordon,
Mo-Dettes,
Siglo XX,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Television Personalities,
The Beau Brummels,
Goldenarms,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.