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 Yemen and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 808 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 Jandek to the techno 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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
R.M.O.,
Piero Umiliani,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
New Age Steppers,
Mad Mike,
June Days,
X-102,
Aswad,
Supertramp,
Mission of Burma,
Joy Division,
The Gladiators,
The Martian,
Funkadelic,
Bobby Sherman,
The Music Machine,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pylon,
The Blackbyrds,
John Lydon,
The Modern Lovers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Aaron Thompson,
Rufus Thomas,
Mo-Dettes,
Toni Rubio,
Graham Central Station,
Quantec,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nirvana,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tom Boy,
Cheater Slicks,
Japan,
Sixth Finger,
Josef K,
The Raincoats,
Brass Construction,
In Retrospect,
Nick Fraelich,
Susan Cadogan,
Stetsasonic,
The Fire Engines,
Yazoo,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
MC5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Leaves,
Royal Trux,
Monolake,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Joe Smooth,
Bronski Beat,
Vainqueur,
Ludus,
Chris & Cosey,
The Selecter,
Pantaleimon,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.