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 Greece and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 sitar 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 John Foxx to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Mandrill,
China Crisis,
Althea and Donna,
Gang Gang Dance,
Accadde A,
Eli Mardock,
Inner City,
Eden Ahbez,
Kenny Larkin,
Bobby Sherman,
Charles Mingus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Stereo Dub,
Sparks,
Dead Boys,
Rites of Spring,
Grandmaster Flash,
Simply Red,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Zeros,
John Foxx,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Oblivians,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lou Christie,
Albert Ayler,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jeru the Damaja,
Trumans Water,
John Cale,
The Detroit Cobras,
Max Romeo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Faraquet,
kango's stein massive,
Pantaleimon,
Cecil Taylor,
Cybotron,
Ultra Naté,
Gang of Four,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jeff Mills,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Raincoats,
Aaron Thompson,
Average White Band,
Symarip,
John Holt,
Moebius,
Cal Tjader,
The Angels of Light,
Dennis Brown,
Gang Starr,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Deepchord,
Drive Like Jehu,
Henry Cow,
Gichy Dan,
T.S.O.L.,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.