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 Montenegro and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 ABC to the funk 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
the Bar-Kays,
Ronnie Foster,
Ornette Coleman,
Popol Vuh,
Pet Shop Boys,
Unrelated Segments,
MDC,
Barclay James Harvest,
Erykah Badu,
The Birthday Party,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scott Walker,
the Soft Cell,
Warsaw,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Intrusion,
Massinfluence,
The Dave Clark Five,
Brothers Johnson,
Rosa Yemen,
Archie Shepp,
Morten Harket,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
La Düsseldorf,
Siglo XX,
Godley & Creme,
Amazonics,
Cecil Taylor,
Chris & Cosey,
The Fire Engines,
Junior Murvin,
Basic Channel,
Au Pairs,
Severed Heads,
Jeru the Damaja,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Don Cherry,
Althea and Donna,
The Black Dice,
Stetsasonic,
Derrick Morgan,
Whodini,
Sandy B,
Audionom,
Japan,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Golliwogs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Human League,
The New Christs,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Cramps,
Depeche Mode,
Essential Logic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.