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 Tanzania and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Black Pus 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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
PIL,
Donald Byrd,
Darondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Star Department,
Alphaville,
UT,
Joe Finger,
Lucky Dragons,
Roxette,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ultimate Spinach,
X-101,
The Sound,
EPMD,
Bootsy Collins,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Arab on Radar,
CMW,
Y Pants,
Dawn Penn,
Simply Red,
Chris & Cosey,
Main Source,
Kas Product,
Funky Four + One,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Grass Roots,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roxy Music,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rites of Spring,
Marc Almond,
Motorama,
Moss Icon,
Second Layer,
Peter and Kerry,
Amon Düül,
James White and The Blacks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soft Machine,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Germs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Monochrome Set,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Todd Terry,
Echospace,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terrestrial Tones,
Black Moon,
Jacob Miller,
Gang Starr,
Maurizio,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.