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 Macedonia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Michael McDonald 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 Deakin to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Skaos,
Roy Ayers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Slick Rick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Last Poets,
Vainqueur,
AZ,
Smog,
Public Enemy,
The Litter,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lucky Dragons,
James White and The Blacks,
Young Marble Giants,
The Associates,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Association,
Erykah Badu,
Cluster,
The Searchers,
Rosa Yemen,
Dave Gahan,
Soulsonic Force,
Todd Rundgren,
DNA,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Japan,
Slave,
Goldenarms,
The Blackbyrds,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Moss Icon,
The Selecter,
Thee Headcoats,
Loose Ends,
John Coltrane,
Kas Product,
Ludus,
Accadde A,
Agitation Free,
Delta 5,
Lebanon Hanover,
Amazonics,
Danielle Patucci,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chris & Cosey,
The Grass Roots,
Y Pants,
Dark Day,
David Bowie,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Yellowson,
The Angels of Light,
Lou Reed,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.