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 Angola and from Bremen.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Donald Byrd to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neu!,
Radio Birdman,
The Monochrome Set,
Steve Hackett,
Rod Modell,
Aswad,
Simply Red,
Brass Construction,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Pretty Things,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sonic Youth,
Average White Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Stiv Bators,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Newcleus,
Sparks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound,
Main Source,
The Cure,
Black Moon,
Accadde A,
Index,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Prince Buster,
Sun Ra,
Second Layer,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arcadia,
Eric Copeland,
Procol Harum,
Lee Hazlewood,
Flamin' Groovies,
Vainqueur,
Unrelated Segments,
Dead Boys,
June of 44,
Nation of Ulysses,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gregory Isaacs,
John Coltrane,
X-101,
Sun City Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Althea and Donna,
Graham Central Station,
The Fuzztones,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mars,
Intrusion,
Sam Rivers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Excepter,
Lalo Schifrin,
Black Pus,
Eddi Front,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Monks,
OOIOO,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.