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 Kyrgyzstan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Taipei.
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 spring reverb 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 Lightning Bolt to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Marshall Jefferson,
Flipper,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Amon Düül II,
Echospace,
Minny Pops,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobby Sherman,
Roy Ayers,
The Walker Brothers,
The Young Rascals,
Little Man,
The Human League,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tomorrow,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Searchers,
Warren Ellis,
The Selecter,
Symarip,
Lee Hazlewood,
John Lydon,
Oneida,
Vainqueur,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Soft Cell,
Radiopuhelimet,
Althea and Donna,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Graham Central Station,
Duran Duran,
Letta Mbulu,
Man Eating Sloth,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Massinfluence,
Unwound,
These Immortal Souls,
Freddie Wadling,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Monks,
K-Klass,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eden Ahbez,
Q65,
Jimmy McGriff,
New Age Steppers,
Lalann,
Ultravox,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Robert Wyatt,
John Holt,
Hardrive,
Fat Boys,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
OOIOO,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gang Starr,
Skaos,
Das Ding,
Lightning Bolt,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.