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 Albania and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 harpsichord 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the grime 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Roy Ayers,
Godley & Creme,
The Angels of Light,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bill Wells,
The Music Machine,
Rapeman,
Sight & Sound,
Dennis Brown,
Unrelated Segments,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lower 48,
PIL,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
China Crisis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Marine Girls,
Soft Machine,
Isaac Hayes,
Kool Moe Dee,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kurtis Blow,
The Fortunes,
Ken Boothe,
Moby Grape,
Malaria!,
The Sound,
Dorothy Ashby,
Wings,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Knickerbockers,
Byron Stingily,
The Names,
Echospace,
The Selecter,
The Victims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Q65,
Youth Brigade,
Amon Düül II,
Gerry Rafferty,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Absolute Body Control,
Can,
Rakim,
Dark Day,
Brothers Johnson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Scrapy,
Popol Vuh,
Crispy Ambulance,
D'Angelo,
AZ,
June Days,
The Gun Club,
Panda Bear,
X-102,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.