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 Iraq and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 The Gories 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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Golliwogs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Archie Shepp,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Stetsasonic,
Massinfluence,
Eden Ahbez,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Throbbing Gristle,
LL Cool J,
The Monks,
Terry Callier,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
48th St. Collective,
Alton Ellis,
Letta Mbulu,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Graham Central Station,
AZ,
Symarip,
Maurizio,
Gang Gang Dance,
Crime,
The Sound,
Buzzcocks,
World's Most,
Marmalade,
Shuggie Otis,
Deepchord,
The Red Krayola,
The Seeds,
The Motions,
The Tremeloes,
Alison Limerick,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Arcadia,
Howard Jones,
Crash Course in Science,
Ponytail,
Oblivians,
The Divine Comedy,
Kas Product,
Davy DMX,
Essential Logic,
Kayak,
Scion,
EPMD,
Kurtis Blow,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
ABBA,
The Techniques,
the Normal,
Sister Nancy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Leaves,
Khruangbin,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Anakelly,
Sam Rivers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.