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 China and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Kaleidoscope to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
The Slits,
Sällskapet,
Mantronix,
The Walker Brothers,
Sonic Youth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jimmy McGriff,
Maurizio,
Whodini,
Drexciya,
Amazonics,
Aural Exciters,
June Days,
Dennis Brown,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Amon Düül II,
Heaven 17,
JFA,
Slave,
Reagan Youth,
Josef K,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Mojo Men,
Smog,
The Dead C,
Gang Green,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cluster,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Fortunes,
Liliput,
Rotary Connection,
Grauzone,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
cv313,
Barrington Levy,
Monolake,
The Detroit Cobras,
Aloha Tigers,
Moby Grape,
The Index,
Cecil Taylor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nas,
Sight & Sound,
The Wake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Sherman,
The Slackers,
Erasure,
Eric Dolphy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Talk Talk,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Blackbyrds,
PIL,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Swans,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.