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 Mali and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 CMW to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Das Ding,
Parry Music,
Graham Central Station,
The Divine Comedy,
The Fuzztones,
Harry Pussy,
Yaz,
Unwound,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Sheep,
Amazonics,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joy Division,
Sun City Girls,
The Mummies,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ice-T,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobby Womack,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Morten Harket,
David McCallum,
Eric B and Rakim,
Quantec,
a-ha,
Bronski Beat,
Kayak,
John Lydon,
Heaven 17,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pulsallama,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Music Machine,
The Gladiators,
Peter and Kerry,
Jeff Mills,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tubeway Army,
The Doors,
Infiniti,
Jandek,
Y Pants,
June of 44,
Spandau Ballet,
Sun Ra,
Charles Mingus,
Sällskapet,
Pere Ubu,
Soulsonic Force,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Radio Birdman,
Lindisfarne,
Pylon,
Alton Ellis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donald Byrd,
LL Cool J,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Association,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Main Source,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.