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 Greece and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Cairo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 DJ Style to the grunge 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
T. Rex,
10cc,
Television Personalities,
Circle Jerks,
Underground Resistance,
The Moleskins,
Kaleidoscope,
Grauzone,
L. Decosne,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
a-ha,
kango's stein massive,
Sandy B,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ossler,
New Order,
Kerri Chandler,
Tomorrow,
Q65,
Hashim,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Glambeats Corp.,
Davy DMX,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Doors,
Surgeon,
Carl Craig,
Vainqueur,
Ronan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris & Cosey,
The Knickerbockers,
Lalann,
The Real Kids,
Moss Icon,
Supertramp,
Motorama,
Agent Orange,
Jesper Dahlback,
Saccharine Trust,
Faraquet,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Aloha Tigers,
ABC,
Dennis Brown,
Maleditus Sound,
Sällskapet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
F. McDonald,
Niagra,
James White and The Blacks,
Moebius,
Mo-Dettes,
Anakelly,
Zapp,
Cymande,
Tubeway Army,
Panda Bear,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.