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 Montenegro and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 Nation of Ulysses to the grime 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
The Slackers,
Derrick Morgan,
Dave Gahan,
Patti Smith,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rekid,
the Soft Cell,
World's Most,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Goldenarms,
Marc Almond,
Royal Trux,
Warren Ellis,
the Fania All-Stars,
Aaron Thompson,
Talk Talk,
Piero Umiliani,
Monolake,
The Trojans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gregory Isaacs,
Hashim,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Oblivians,
B.T. Express,
Nico,
Kayak,
Japan,
Aswad,
Khruangbin,
The Residents,
The Happenings,
Rakim,
The Smiths,
JFA,
Tubeway Army,
La Düsseldorf,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Marine Girls,
Essential Logic,
the Association,
The Human League,
Ludus,
Brand Nubian,
Radio Birdman,
The Monks,
Yaz,
Outsiders,
Pantaleimon,
Basic Channel,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lalo Schifrin,
Connie Case,
The Beau Brummels,
Ituana,
Drive Like Jehu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deakin,
Brothers Johnson,
Funkadelic,
The Offenders,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.