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 Uganda and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Donald Fagen 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 Cecil Taylor to the electroclash 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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Animal Collective,
Isaac Hayes,
Vainqueur,
Silicon Teens,
Fat Boys,
Erykah Badu,
Albert Ayler,
Traffic Nightmare,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Michelle Simonal,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eve St. Jones,
Tomorrow,
Lungfish,
Adolescents,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Suburban Knight,
LL Cool J,
Fad Gadget,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kenny Larkin,
Schoolly D,
CMW,
Fela Kuti,
T. Rex,
Nils Olav,
Newcleus,
JFA,
Harry Pussy,
Warren Ellis,
Deakin,
Tommy Roe,
The Monks,
Joy Division,
X-101,
Fugazi,
Davy DMX,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Delta 5,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Todd Terry,
Kerri Chandler,
Donald Byrd,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Misunderstood,
John Foxx,
The Fuzztones,
Jacob Miller,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Stereo Dub,
Ponytail,
Ronnie Foster,
Arab on Radar,
Henry Cow,
Basic Channel,
Donny Hathaway,
Outsiders,
The Names,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.