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 Kuwait and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bremen.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Half Japanese to the punk 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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Saccharine Trust,
The Fuzztones,
Sun City Girls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Hasil Adkins,
JFA,
Brand Nubian,
Ken Boothe,
Half Japanese,
Iggy Pop,
Siglo XX,
Von Mondo,
The Sonics,
Nas,
Young Marble Giants,
David McCallum,
Wally Richardson,
DNA,
Wings,
Terrestrial Tones,
Warren Ellis,
The Vogues,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
kango's stein massive,
Gang of Four,
Roy Ayers,
Mission of Burma,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ornette Coleman,
Avey Tare,
Gil Scott Heron,
Groovy Waters,
The Cramps,
Franke,
Crime,
Minutemen,
June of 44,
Dawn Penn,
Connie Case,
Quadrant,
Colin Newman,
Pet Shop Boys,
Barrington Levy,
Wire,
Kas Product,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Monochrome Set,
Loose Ends,
Chrome,
Heaven 17,
X-Ray Spex,
Panda Bear,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Yusef Lateef,
Metal Thangz,
Aloha Tigers,
Yellowson,
David Axelrod,
Second Layer,
Visage,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.