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 Uruguay and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Halifax.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bobby Sherman to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
The United States of America,
Donny Hathaway,
Japan,
Scrapy,
Qualms,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sonic Youth,
The Slackers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lindisfarne,
Fatback Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jeff Mills,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alison Limerick,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Monochrome Set,
The Misunderstood,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lightning Bolt,
Swell Maps,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Grass Roots,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eve St. Jones,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mad Mike,
Grauzone,
The Remains,
Hoover,
The Black Dice,
David Bowie,
48th St. Collective,
Radiohead,
Suburban Knight,
Bang On A Can,
Brick,
Black Flag,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Moon,
Stereo Dub,
Isaac Hayes,
Kas Product,
Drexciya,
Q and Not U,
Faraquet,
Boogie Down Productions,
Electric Prunes,
Audionom,
The Fall,
Suicide,
MC5,
Joyce Sims,
Stetsasonic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Maleditus Sound,
The Fortunes,
Fat Boys,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.