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 Botswana and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 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 Carl Craig to the jazz 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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Massinfluence,
OOIOO,
Mars,
David Bowie,
Fluxion,
Mark Hollis,
Dual Sessions,
Althea and Donna,
The Young Rascals,
Harry Pussy,
Hoover,
Yellowson,
Pussy Galore,
X-102,
Sight & Sound,
Janne Schatter,
The Leaves,
Sun City Girls,
Barrington Levy,
Ten City,
Simply Red,
Black Moon,
The Human League,
Sonic Youth,
Harpers Bizarre,
T. Rex,
Heaven 17,
The Fire Engines,
Vladislav Delay,
Roxette,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Doors,
The Selecter,
Dennis Brown,
Theoretical Girls,
Alton Ellis,
Basic Channel,
The Fugs,
Piero Umiliani,
Television,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bad Manners,
Marvin Gaye,
Tears for Fears,
Tom Boy,
Magma,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pere Ubu,
JFA,
The Names,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Fuzztones,
Gil Scott Heron,
Easy Going,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Zero Boys,
Iggy Pop,
The Happenings,
Maurizio,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.