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 Jordan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mandrill to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gichy Dan,
Heaven 17,
Sonic Youth,
Moby Grape,
Unrelated Segments,
Goldenarms,
Mars,
June Days,
The Smiths,
Quadrant,
Nik Kershaw,
Davy DMX,
Popol Vuh,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nas,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marvin Gaye,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Girls At Our Best!,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Count Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lightning Bolt,
New Order,
The Raincoats,
Peter and Kerry,
Gang Starr,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Nirvana,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ralphi Rosario,
The American Breed,
Joey Negro,
Infiniti,
The Offenders,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kaleidoscope,
Agent Orange,
In Retrospect,
Tropical Tobacco,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roy Ayers,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Red Krayola,
Arthur Verocai,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sound Behaviour,
Mantronix,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Chris Corsano,
KRS-One,
Tim Buckley,
The Leaves,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.