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 Slovenia and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Average White Band to the crunk 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Frankie Knuckles,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeru the Damaja,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Moebius,
Moss Icon,
The Misunderstood,
Rites of Spring,
Kurtis Blow,
Yellowson,
Joey Negro,
Lungfish,
Quando Quango,
Yazoo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The American Breed,
Reuben Wilson,
LL Cool J,
The Red Krayola,
The Slackers,
Erykah Badu,
The Seeds,
Underground Resistance,
Howard Jones,
Flash Fearless,
Suburban Knight,
Sound Behaviour,
Bill Near,
Sun Ra,
the Sonics,
James White and The Blacks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sonny Sharrock,
Isaac Hayes,
OOIOO,
Aswad,
Laurel Aitken,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Angry Samoans,
Supertramp,
Maurizio,
Gregory Isaacs,
Brick,
Morten Harket,
Circle Jerks,
Kerri Chandler,
Subhumans,
Bootsy Collins,
Jeff Mills,
DJ Sneak,
D'Angelo,
Whodini,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Index,
Lakeside,
Traffic Nightmare,
Babytalk,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.