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 Azerbaijan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 oboe 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 The Gladiators to the funk 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 The Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway 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?
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Buckinghams,
Scientists,
New Order,
Essential Logic,
Quantec,
David Bowie,
a-ha,
Alton Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lightning Bolt,
Nico,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kayak,
LL Cool J,
Eurythmics,
Ten City,
Eli Mardock,
Outsiders,
AZ,
Animal Collective,
Bootsy Collins,
Brothers Johnson,
Lucky Dragons,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kerri Chandler,
Shoche,
Smog,
F. McDonald,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Doobie Brothers,
John Coltrane,
Cameo,
The Real Kids,
Franke,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Residents,
Magma,
Bobby Hutcherson,
JFA,
Radiopuhelimet,
D'Angelo,
Lower 48,
Fat Boys,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bobby Byrd,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Newcleus,
Groovy Waters,
Von Mondo,
Hashim,
Tim Buckley,
Deadbeat,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Seeds,
Babytalk,
Carl Craig,
Don Cherry,
Anthony Braxton,
Chrome,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.