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 Poland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Manchester and Lagos.
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 chamberlin 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Derrick Morgan,
The Stooges,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Amazonics,
The Red Krayola,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
This Heat,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roy Ayers,
Matthew Halsall,
Banda Bassotti,
Los Fastidios,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Kaleidoscope,
Yusef Lateef,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Massinfluence,
Ohio Players,
The American Breed,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Idris Muhammad,
Sugar Minott,
The Searchers,
Michelle Simonal,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
H. Thieme,
Infiniti,
Rites of Spring,
Dead Boys,
Goldenarms,
Hardrive,
New Order,
Suicide,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Quando Quango,
Scrapy,
The Electric Prunes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Spandau Ballet,
The Cure,
A Certain Ratio,
The Dave Clark Five,
Clear Light,
T.S.O.L.,
The Associates,
Lindisfarne,
Shuggie Otis,
Gong,
Soul II Soul,
Vainqueur,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.