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 Honduras and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 Lyon 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 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 Jawbox to the grime 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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
MDC,
Pulsallama,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Absolute Body Control,
Tres Demented,
The Barracudas,
Barbara Tucker,
Nas,
T.S.O.L.,
Colin Newman,
cv313,
Monks,
Lou Reed,
Johnny Osbourne,
Erasure,
Ituana,
Jerry's Kids,
Gichy Dan,
Aswad,
Spandau Ballet,
Negative Approach,
Echospace,
World's Most,
Nirvana,
The Tremeloes,
Janne Schatter,
Steve Hackett,
Byron Stingily,
Agitation Free,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Letta Mbulu,
The Doors,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pere Ubu,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Brick,
Dawn Penn,
The Human League,
The Cure,
The United States of America,
The Angels of Light,
Black Moon,
Masters at Work,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fall,
Whodini,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric Copeland,
Blancmange,
The Buckinghams,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Peter and Kerry,
UT,
Black Flag,
Ornette Coleman,
Vainqueur,
The Slackers,
Loose Ends,
KRS-One,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.