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 Guyana and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Swell Maps to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Sheep,
Curtis Mayfield,
Animal Collective,
Swell Maps,
Negative Approach,
Joe Smooth,
Ronan,
The Blues Magoos,
Soulsonic Force,
Rekid,
Skaos,
John Lydon,
The Leaves,
The Misunderstood,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The New Christs,
Pantaleimon,
Metal Thangz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Flesh Eaters,
The United States of America,
The Seeds,
The Saints,
Wolf Eyes,
Jacques Brel,
Vladislav Delay,
Kayak,
Underground Resistance,
Scrapy,
Man Parrish,
New Age Steppers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Johnny Clarke,
Joe Finger,
Minny Pops,
Jesper Dahlback,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kerri Chandler,
Interpol,
Organ,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
James White and The Blacks,
Gang Gang Dance,
Icehouse,
Susan Cadogan,
Fluxion,
Sex Pistols,
Absolute Body Control,
UT,
Joey Negro,
Charles Mingus,
Eli Mardock,
Tom Boy,
OOIOO,
Sister Nancy,
PIL,
the Fania All-Stars,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.