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 Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 mellotron 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
Flash Fearless,
Crispy Ambulance,
Soulsonic Force,
Althea and Donna,
The Techniques,
The Monks,
Rosa Yemen,
Prince Buster,
Hardrive,
Roxy Music,
Letta Mbulu,
Skarface,
Toni Rubio,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ohio Players,
The Saints,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Buzzcocks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young,
Gang of Four,
Procol Harum,
Lou Reed,
Gil Scott Heron,
Interpol,
The Motions,
Guru Guru,
Matthew Bourne,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Alphaville,
Lee Hazlewood,
Alice Coltrane,
Jeff Lynne,
Ten City,
Leonard Cohen,
Thee Headcoats,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Black Flag,
Easy Going,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scion,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Neu!,
Negative Approach,
Roy Ayers,
Mars,
Donny Hathaway,
The Pretty Things,
Bootsy Collins,
Harpers Bizarre,
This Heat,
Essential Logic,
Minny Pops,
Silicon Teens,
The Index,
Anakelly,
Warsaw,
The Divine Comedy,
Todd Rundgren,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Germs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.