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 Russia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 chamberlin 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 Davy DMX to the rap 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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Crooked Eye,
Sugar Minott,
Glenn Branca,
Outsiders,
Mr. Review,
Maurizio,
Altered Images,
Amazonics,
Danielle Patucci,
Magazine,
Soulsonic Force,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Porter Ricks,
Matthew Bourne,
Ossler,
Grauzone,
Suicide,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Flipper,
MDC,
Massinfluence,
Ludus,
Ice-T,
Eddi Front,
MC5,
Minnie Riperton,
Hardrive,
Laurel Aitken,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bronski Beat,
Barbara Tucker,
Shuggie Otis,
Silicon Teens,
Basic Channel,
Minor Threat,
Gabor Szabo,
Con Funk Shun,
Prince Buster,
Warsaw,
The Offenders,
Brick,
The Knickerbockers,
The Black Dice,
Fluxion,
Sällskapet,
Amon Düül,
Kas Product,
Flash Fearless,
Amon Düül II,
John Foxx,
Newcleus,
Liliput,
Jeff Mills,
The Tremeloes,
Tom Boy,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.