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 Tonga and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 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 Quadrant to the disco 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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
The Gun Club,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Human League,
Michelle Simonal,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Infiniti,
Andrew Hill,
Dennis Brown,
Big Daddy Kane,
Graham Central Station,
DNA,
Frankie Knuckles,
Robert Görl,
The Monochrome Set,
John Cale,
Grauzone,
Delon & Dalcan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Gories,
Clear Light,
Quadrant,
The Trojans,
Al Stewart,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Selecter,
Godley & Creme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Todd Terry,
Reagan Youth,
Franke,
Ultra Naté,
Rod Modell,
The Fugs,
Eric Dolphy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
B.T. Express,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tim Buckley,
The Dead C,
The Electric Prunes,
The Fuzztones,
Inner City,
Tommy Roe,
Prince Buster,
Whodini,
John Foxx,
Heaven 17,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mission of Burma,
Soft Machine,
Ponytail,
Bill Near,
Von Mondo,
Icehouse,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.