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 Oman and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Salvador and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Essential Logic to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cymande,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Standells,
Hot Snakes,
Bobby Womack,
Visage,
The Cowsills,
The Doors,
Jeff Mills,
Faust,
Derrick May,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Infiniti,
the Germs,
Darondo,
Blancmange,
The Fugs,
Joe Smooth,
The Vogues,
Mr. Review,
Funky Four + One,
Cecil Taylor,
The Residents,
Lucky Dragons,
The Seeds,
James White and The Blacks,
Aswad,
John Coltrane,
Average White Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Royal Trux,
David Bowie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kas Product,
Oneida,
Sonny Sharrock,
Josef K,
ABC,
Avey Tare,
The Durutti Column,
T.S.O.L.,
John Cale,
Donald Byrd,
Surgeon,
Robert Wyatt,
a-ha,
The Five Americans,
Iggy Pop,
Glenn Branca,
New York Dolls,
Circle Jerks,
Swans,
Symarip,
Donny Hathaway,
Massinfluence,
Inner City,
The Index,
Nas,
Spandau Ballet,
Khruangbin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.