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 Libya and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Connie Case to the crunk 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Pulsallama,
CMW,
Mars,
Barrington Levy,
Alison Limerick,
Lakeside,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Talk Talk,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pharoah Sanders,
Andrew Hill,
The Grass Roots,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Animal Collective,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Y Pants,
MC5,
Television Personalities,
Minnie Riperton,
New Age Steppers,
Section 25,
Lower 48,
Flash Fearless,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wolf Eyes,
Massinfluence,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nirvana,
Ronnie Foster,
Minor Threat,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Techniques,
Infiniti,
Heaven 17,
Agitation Free,
Darondo,
Charles Mingus,
Dawn Penn,
Shoche,
Mission of Burma,
Average White Band,
Lungfish,
U.S. Maple,
The Mummies,
Godley & Creme,
Robert Wyatt,
Camouflage,
Masters at Work,
The Move,
Marine Girls,
EPMD,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Angels of Light,
The Moody Blues,
Sandy B,
Letta Mbulu,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.