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 Finland and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bob Dylan to the electroclash 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Warren Ellis,
Surgeon,
a-ha,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Fortunes,
The Red Krayola,
Byron Stingily,
Peter & Gordon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Vainqueur,
Juan Atkins,
Mark Hollis,
Lindisfarne,
Jacques Brel,
The Modern Lovers,
Khruangbin,
JFA,
DNA,
Flipper,
The Remains,
The Zeros,
Moss Icon,
Scrapy,
Popol Vuh,
Junior Murvin,
ABC,
Fad Gadget,
Brass Construction,
In Retrospect,
Cabaret Voltaire,
X-101,
Electric Prunes,
Ronnie Foster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mo-Dettes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gang of Four,
Radio Birdman,
Amazonics,
The Real Kids,
Visage,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vladislav Delay,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Bar-Kays,
Nik Kershaw,
Kas Product,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nas,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Barbara Tucker,
Bluetip,
China Crisis,
The New Christs,
Skriet,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.