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 Kiribati and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Leonard Cohen to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
JFA,
Oneida,
Kayak,
Roy Ayers,
Radio Birdman,
Royal Trux,
Gregory Isaacs,
Symarip,
Alice Coltrane,
Bill Wells,
Danielle Patucci,
Yellowson,
LL Cool J,
D'Angelo,
Gichy Dan,
Nico,
Public Enemy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Derrick May,
Scan 7,
Moebius,
Buzzcocks,
Pulsallama,
A Certain Ratio,
Subhumans,
Spandau Ballet,
The Evens,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Doors,
Joe Finger,
Suicide,
R.M.O.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Outsiders,
Moss Icon,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Associates,
Pylon,
Ralphi Rosario,
PIL,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Crime,
The Gun Club,
Pagans,
Technova,
Man Eating Sloth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lalo Schifrin,
June of 44,
Saccharine Trust,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soulsonic Force,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fela Kuti,
Country Joe & The Fish,
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.